From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Mar  5 16:04:53 1999
Subject: fscanf assignment suppression character
From: Don Fisher <dfisher at as dot arizona dot edu>
To: Octave Help <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 15:04:41 -0700

Does the * character ("the input field is skipped" K&R Ver 2) allow me to ignore
certain input fields.  I am often requested to read files to  whose rows are
labeled numbers.  I would like to ignore the labels.

I know I can preprocess the data in perl etc.  I think this should be
accomplished within octave.

thanks
don