Re: NaNs in ascii

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:37:25PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote:
> What am I doing wrong?  Here's what happens:
> 
> # echo '1 NaN' > junk.txt
> # octave
> octave:1> load junk.txt
> octave:2> disp(junk)
>   1  1
> 
> So the NaN has become a 1.
> 
> Even when I create the data in octave and use save -ascii, I can't bring
> it back in using load -ascii when there is a NaN in the matrix.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any clues.

address@hidden:~> cd /tmp
address@hidden:/tmp> echo '1 NaN' > junk.txt
address@hidden:/tmp> octave2.1 -q
octave2.1:1> load junk.txt
octave2.1:2> junk
junk =

    1  NaN
    
octave2.1:3> quit

Time for an upgrade, maybe ?  This is with Debian's 2.1.37 which includes
two small post-release patches by JWE.

Dirk

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