From help-request at octave dot org Mon May 16 21:29:52 2005
Subject: Re: Loading .csv files
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Hauberg?= <soren at hauberg dot org>
Cc: Octave Help <help at octave dot org>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:25:37 -0400

On 16-May-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Couldn't one simply do something like this
| 
| if (exists(datapath))
|    use datapath
| else
|    use loadpath
| endif

Yes, this would seem to be a reasonable thing to do.  To make it work,
DATAPATH would need to be undefined initially.  But a user cannot
currently create a built-in variable at the command line, so there
could be some difficulty in making this work properly given the
current implementation.

In any case, I have no plans to work on this feature, or making
Octave's load and fopen functions search the LOADPATH if the file is
not found in the current directory.  Patches are welcome if someone
else would like to look at it.

jwe



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