From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Mar 29 12:16:08 1999
Subject: Re: loading ascii data
From: "Wolfgang Koller" <koller2 at fgr dot wu-wien dot ac dot at>
To: "help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,         Daniel Heiserer <Daniel.Heiserer@bmw.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:19:20 CET (+0100)


> Wolfgang Koller wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I have problems with loading a large ascii-file. The octave error
> > message does not indicate to me what is wrong:
> > 
> >   ' found in file `/home/koller/Daten/IFG/Panel.ocd'
> >   error: evaluating index expression near line 3, column 1
> > 
> > However, when I cut only the first 10 data rows of the file (and
> > adapt the header accordingly) everything goes well. So I conclude
> > the failure must be hidden somewhere in the next thousand lines...
> > 
> > Can someone give me a hint what I should look for?
> 
> 
> How did you load it, with "load /home/koller/Daten/IFG/Panel.ocd'?
> Is it a plain ascii file or is it from octave?
> 
> 
Yes, I used the load command. The first four lines of the file look 
like this:

# name: Panel
# type: matrix
# rows: 6471
# columns: 36

Then come the data.

The figures ar tabulator-separated, not blank-separated. I wonder if 
this causes the troubles?!

Wolfgang Koller



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Wolfgang Koller
Research Assistant
Research Institute for European Affairs
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration