From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 8 08:43:47 2004 Subject: textread ; ignoring header lines From: Y U Sasidhar To: Octave_post Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:19:02 +0530 many times the data files have a few header lines beginning with #, at , % etc followed by columns of data like: # comment1 at another comment 1 2 3 4 5 6 etc how do I tell textread to ignore those header lines ? -- Sasidhar ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------