Re: How to suppress unneeded output while using "save"

[Paul Kienzle]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:11:18PM +0100, address@hidden 
> wrote:
> > Dear ladies and gentlemen!
> > I use the command "save" to save  a matrix in a data-file. That works 
> > pretty
> > well.
> > But octave also writes the following information in this data-file:
> >
> > # Created by Octave 2.1.57, Sun Dec 04 12:37:37 2005
> > # name: speedsc1
> > # type: matrix
> > # rows: 30
> > # columns: 337
> >
> > How can I suppress this additional output?
>
> If you remove those lines, you will not be able to load the file
> again.  If you still wish to do so, simply pipe the file through 
> `grep':
>
> $ cat data.txt | grep -v "#" > newdata.txt

Or you can use dlmwrite

  dlmwrite('outfile',A,' ')


- Paul



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