Re: Textread from io package

[Daniel Arteaga]

Al 09/04/13 15:28, En/na Daniel Arteaga ha escrit:
> 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.

I have tried to workaround the use of textread with dlmread and other 
functions without success, because the file to parse

(i) has a variable number of columns
(ii) there is a mixture of text and numeric data

What is the best way to parse these kind of data? (see example in parent 
post)

Thanks

Daniel