Help parsing a text file and assigning variables

[Eric]

Hello,

I am trying to read a simple spice netlist file into octave and assign 
the variables listed with the values listed in the file.  The file is a 
text file.

An example of the file I am trying to import is:

------------------------------------------------------
V1 1 0 12
R1 1 2 1000
R2 2 0 2000
R3 2 0 2000

-------------------------------------------------------

I would like to read the file and automatically create and assign the 
variables:

V1 = 12
R1 = 1000
R2 = 2000
R3 = 2000

where the first element of each line is the variable name and the fourth 
element of each line is the value.

I have been looking through google and the octave documents for some 
examples but have not been successful.


Thank you for any help.


Eric Meddleton