From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jul 28 09:56:23 2003
Subject: fscanf
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Nathan Weisz <Nathan dot Weisz at uni-konstanz dot de>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:55:07 -0500

On 28-Jul-2003, Nathan Weisz <Nathan dot Weisz at uni-konstanz dot de> wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I am quite new to Octave and testing some of my Matlab functions. A 
| pretty important one reads offline-analyzed EEG/MEG-data (BESA 
| avr-format).
| The first line of this file-type includes data-acquisition information 
| (e.g. sampling rate, offset). Using the strtok-function provided by P. 
| Kienzle I have no problems reading these.
| 
| However when it comes to reading the actual data, Octave returns an 
| empty matrix.
| The procedure is as follows:
| octave:192> [data,count] = fscanf(fid, "%f", [nr_timepoints, Inf])
| data = [](0x1)
| count = 0
| 
| --> where nr_timepoints = 70
| --> various attempts (e.g. using " instead of ' failed
| --> there seem to be no problem with the fid
| octave:193> fid
| fid =
| {
|    id = 11
|    name = /Studien/AUF/MNE/kon8/kon8_6000SSF.avr
|    mode = r
|    arch = native
|    status = open
| }
| 
| This is probably a pretty simple promblem, however I seem to naive to 
| solve it quickly. Does somebody have a quick hint?

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Thanks,

jwe



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