From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Feb  1 08:30:23 2002
Subject: Re: fscanf transposes matrix
From: Victor Munoz <vmunoz at macul dot ciencias dot uchile dot cl>
To: Martijn Brouwer <e dot a dot m dot brouwer at tn dot utwente dot nl>
cc: Octave Help <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:29:54 -0300 (CLST)


> Hi,
> I am (quite) new to octave and I am looking for a way to read an entire
> matrix of measurement data from a file at once.
> I now use a=fscanf(file,"%f%f",[2,Inf]) to read a file containing two
> columns of numbers, but the resulting matrix is transposed compared to
> the file. Offcourse, this is easily cured with a ', but it is counter
> intuitive. Reading with [Inf,2] would in my opinion be better, but this
> results in an one column matrix.
> 

 If your data are in matrix form in a file named data.txt, for instance,
isn't it enough to use this?: 
	load data.txt
Columns are read correctly and assigned to a variable named data (filename
without extension).

 Regards,

			Victor




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