From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 29 08:43:02 2003 Subject: Re: Why is sscanf() so slow? From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" To: stefan , Dirk Eddelbuettel , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:41:58 -0600 > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > Please see below for the function aload.m from the octave-ci collection by > > Kurt Horik et al; I used to use this a lot. It essentially pre-processes > > the data first, and then uses a normal load (in ascii mode). I never quite > > figure out why JWE didn't include it into Octave itself when he chose to > > include other octave-ci functions. Anyway, there is a Debian package of > > octave-ci, a tarball in Vienna, Austria. Paul Kienzel also has something > > similar in octave-forge. (Apologies to Paul and Kurt for the typos. I need to work on my typing skills.) > Thank you for the quick response. The 'aload' function looks very useful. > Unfortunately I cannot use it out of the box right now, because the data I > am currently working at is tab seperated and also contains empty lines. > > Just now I cannot think of a proper modification of 'aload.m' to get it > working with this kind of data. Do you? Should be easy -- just modify the existing grep/sed constructs in aload.m. Substitute Perl, Python or whatever you are comfortable with. Dirk -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all signatures are totally worthless. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------