Re: Error Reading a file

[Carlo De Falco]

On 28 Jun 2016, at 20:43, Thomas D. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have a problem with octave reading an ascii file, based on its contents.  
> There are no strange characters in the file.  Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> octave:1553> type xx
> ## Copyright (C) 2016 Thomas D. Dean
> ##
> ## This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
> ## the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> ## Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
> ## option) any later version.
> ##
> ## This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> ## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> ## GNU General Public License for more details.
> ##
> ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> ## along with this file.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> ##
> 

Reading stops here because the last line in the above is empty.
the condition 

(str = []) != -1

evaluates to the empty matrix and while treats the empty matrix as 'false'

HTH,
c.