From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 22 21:45:22 2003 Subject: Re: How to input tabular data through a form? From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" To: "Henry F. Mollet" cc: Octave_post Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:45:22 -0700 (MST) On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Henry F. Mollet wrote: > and really need a menu as an aid. It's so much easier to be able to > highlight a matrix in a spreadsheet and then use the menu to ask for the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Provided that the matrix is not something like: octave:212> whos a *** local user variables: prot type rows cols name ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== rwd matrix 10 606907 a (and that is not an extreme example -- just happens to be the matrix I am working with at the moment) > octave:5> fid=fopen('Workbook.cvs'); > octave:6> a=fscanf(fid,"%f,%f,%f\r",[3,inf]) > error: fscanf: invalid stream number = -1 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The fid is invalid. I looked at your early posts and the file name was Workbook1.cvs (I forgot about the '1'). > on 1/22/03 3:14 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov at dima at coffee dot phys dot unm dot edu wrote: > > > You can also try with original "Workbook.cvs" file the following > > > > fid=fopen('Workbook.cvs'); > > a=fscanf(fid,"%f,%f,%f\r",[3,inf]) > > ^^ > > Note explicit '\r' here > > > > If it works you would not need to convert the files... > > > > It worked for me, but I am not on Mac. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dmitri. > > Regards, Dmitri. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------