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Re: about reading large text files (> 10 GB) into an array
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Francesco Potortì |
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Re: about reading large text files (> 10 GB) into an array |
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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:04:34 +0200 |
>I have a very large text file (say, 10 GB) each line of which contains
>a float-point number. Can I read all the numbers in this file into an
>array in Octave? I tried textread() but it complains something about
>"out of bound" array, which I think may suggest Octave's incapability
>of handling large arrays.
Most times, people try to use complex ways to read numbers into Octave.
The simplest and fastest of functions is perfect for text files
containing arrays or matrices of numbers.
Your case is one of those common simple cases: just use `load'.
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