Textread from io package

[Daniel Arteaga]

Hi,

The following piece of code works with Matlab:

[Trial Event_Type Code
Time]=textread('test.log','%d%s%s%d%*[^\n]','headerlines',5);

In Octave 3.6.2 raises an error (both tested in Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows)

This code should read the first four columns of the attached text file
and discard the rest. How can it be adapted to Octave?

I have tried several things like replacing *[^\n] by *, adding and
'endofline' option, all without success.

Any clue?

Thanks

Daniel

test.log
Description: Text Data