From help-request at octave dot org Tue Sep 13 01:47:36 2005
Subject: Re: handling strings
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
To: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>
Cc: Help-Octave List <help at octave dot org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:38:40 +0200

Mike,

To read in the data, you might want to take a look at 'textread' in
octave-forge (recently, a C++ version was submitted).

It shouldn't be difficult to modify it to do your string comparisons as
well.

Regards
Stéfan

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:38:01PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> This is a seemingly simple problem but I find it hard to deal with in 
> Octave (probably because there is some neat trick that I don't know). 
> Here is the bare bones of it:
> 
> I have a file with strings delimited by any number of consecutive spaces 
> and/or tabs.  The line may be padded with some spaces or tabs at either 
> end that should be ignored.  I want to be able to read in the file as an 
> array of strings.  Is that even possible?
> 
> Once I have the data in memory, I want to be able to find the array 
> elements containing strings that match other strings in the array.  Let's 
> call the array "A".  I would then want to do things like
> 
> find(A==A(2,3))



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