From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan 11 15:01:54 2006
Subject: Re: large input data
From: "Robert A. Macy" <macy at california dot com>
To: Hayden Rampadarath <halien69 at yahoo dot co dot uk>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:56:11 -0800

Similar requirement.  Sometimes the data is scooped up from
an Excel spread sheet, or sometimes just a lot of terms. 

I use a text editor (sometimes notepad) to make an ascii
data file, dataset.txt.  Include "fake" headers at the top
of the file [those five lines at the top, describing what
the data is] to make it look like a standard ascii style
octave file.  

then use...
>> load -force "dataset.txt";
...to load it in, and overwrite the specific variable.  

            - Robert -

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:47:56 +0000 (GMT)
 Hayden Rampadarath <halien69 at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>    
>   i am using GNU Octave version 2.1.71, in Cygwin for my
> research project, and have a lot of input data. i would
> like to know an easier method than typing them in. Can i
> do some thing for it to read it from say notepad, or
> something??
>    
>   Also, how do i make and save plots using this version??
>    
>    
>   Thanks 
>   Hayden



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