From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jan 24 12:53:41 2000
Subject: Re: reshape in Octave
From: "A. Scottedward Hodel" <a dot s dot hodel at eng dot auburn dot edu>
To: Neil Ottenstein <nottenst at pop500 dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov>,         help-octave <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:53:30 -0600

> on 1/24/00 12:23 PM, Neil Ottenstein at nottenst at pop500 dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov wrote:

> 
> reshape in Matlab 5.3 allows the following line:
> 
> ppoly2=reshape(fread(fid,273,'float64'),[3,13,7]);
> 
> unfortunately, Octave only allows a reshape command which reshapes to an mxn
> as opposed to an mxnxp
> matrix. 
> 
> Do any quick fixes come to mind?  I believe I am working with Octave 2.0.14.
> It was obtained in November.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Neil 

Octave does not (directly) support multidimensional arrays.  A kludge around
this would be to use the (one-dimensional) list data structure in the
bleeding-edge release, but this would require writing your own reshape to
treat a list of 2-d arrays  (or a list of lists of one-d arrays).

THe subject of multidimensional arrays was discussed last fall on the
help-octave mailing list; you can read the thread at the archives at
http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/

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