Re: Large Ascii Files and "textread.m"

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Michael Barton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm reading a large ascii file.  I want to read entire lines of the file and
> store them as strings.  Also, I need to be able to reference back in order
> to read following lines.  Hopefully, this example can demonstrate what I'm
> trying to do.
>
> MyAsciiFile.txt
> This is the 1st line of the file.
> This is the 2nd line of the file.
> This is the 3rd line of the file.
>
> I/O CODE:
> MyFileID = fopen("MyAsciiFile.txt", "r");
> StringLine1 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
> StringLine2 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
> StringLine3 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>
> IN OCTAVE MEMORY:
> StringLine1 = "This is the 1st line of the file."
> StringLine2 = "This is the 2nd line of the file."
> StringLine3 = "This is the 3rd line of the file."
>
> From sources online, the "textread" should accomplish this.  When I run "doc
> textread", Octave finds no entries. I'm using version 3.0.1 on XP with out
> cygwin.  Any suggestions?
>

Can you just use fgets/fgetl ?

Dmitri.
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