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From: | Geraint Paul Bevan |
Subject: | Re: Distinguishing between purely numerical data and alphanumeric data |
Date: | Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:06:27 +0100 |
User-agent: | Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050817) |
Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Hi > > I have the following two lines in a data file : > > VB= -5 to 5 in 1 step > 1 -10 -5 3.896E-11 5E-14 -7.841E-11 0.557582 779.2 > > I need to tell them apart somehow. I tried : > > all/any (isalpha(string)) % String read in via fgets() > > Both return the same result (thanks to the presence of "E" characters in the > line containing just numbers) > > How do I disambiguate between the two ? > > Thanks. How about any(str2num(string)) ? -- Geraint Bevan http://www.mech.gla.ac.uk/~gbevan ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------
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