[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45712] strread bug when ignoring a string

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #45712 (project octave):

Turns out is *is* mentioned in the texinfo help, but maybe not so clear.
What about the following?

:
     "delimiter"
          Any character in VALUE will be used to split STR into words
          (default value = any whitespace).  Note that whitespace is
          implicitly added to the set of delimiter characters unless a
          "%s" format conversion specifier is supplied; see "whitespace"
          parameter below.  The set of delimiter characters cannot be
          empty; if needed Octave substitutes a space as delimiter.
:
     "whitespace"
          Any character in VALUE will be interpreted as whitespace and
          trimmed; the string defining whitespace must be enclosed in
          double quotes for proper processing of special characters like
          "\t".  The default value for whitespace is " \b\r\n\t" (note
          the space).  Whitespace is always added to the set of
          delimiter characters UNLESS at least one "%s" format
          conversion specifier is supplied; in that case only whitespace
          explicitly specified in "delimiter" is retained as delimiter
          and removed from the set of whitespace characters.  See also
          the "delimiter" parameter.
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