Re: openning ascii file with headers that don't have special characters (#) in front of them

[Ron.Simonson]

kevinl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to load an ascii file that look like :
>
> # Some text
> 12   0.0E+00
>  20  35 -131.658 -121.667   57.333   65.825 0.5000 0.2500
>
>    time(years)=           0.0
>    775.545
>    761.773
>    480.000
>    247.591
>   1295.091
>    401.318
>
> I would like to open that file startting at line 5.
> I don't know if load can be used with a specific starting line. 
> I tried dlmread :
> dlmread('hypsN10.dir/hbhypsNHYPSGRID10.dat',' ',5,3);
> but it doesn't work as some data start after 3 spaces and other after 2
> spaces.
>
> Thanks
How about putting sed -i '1,5 s/^/# /' filename in a system call before
you use load("filename") to comment the first five lines.  If you need
to you can use a similar sed call to remove the comment characters?