Re: Import large field-delimited file with strings and numbers

[Francesco Potortì]

>To answer Francesco's comment, fscanf allows for size specification 
>without loop, but I don't know how to write the template indicating that 
>commas (or something else) is a separator. Furthermore, even if the 
>separator is whitespace as output I got a concatenated string instead of 
>multiple fields...

Hm.  I tried myself but can't get fscanf to read multiple lines...

Here is what I get:


===File ~/math/workarea/test.txt============================
field1, field2, field3, field4
A,        a,        1,       1.0,
B,        b,        2,        2.0,
C,        c,        3,        3.0,
============================================================

octave> fid=fopen("test.txt");
octave> fgetl(fid); [v1, v2, v3, v4, count, errmsg]=fscanf(fid, "%s%s%d,%f,", 
"C")
v1 = A,
v2 = a,
v3 =  1
v4 =  1
count =  4
errmsg = 
octave> fclose(fid);

So everything is nice and good, but fscanf stops at the first row of
data...

Oh, and I also tried twith a template "%s%s%d,%f,\n", explicitely
adding a newline at the end, because the Octave manual does not say what
a "whitespace" is, but no change :(

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