Newbie question: textread versus textscan

[John Helly]

Hi.

Environment: OSX 10.6.4, Octave 3.2.3

I'm just trying to switch from Matlab to Octave and am having trouble with 
replacing textscan with textread.  I've checked the usual places for info and 
am under the impression that textread should exist and work but it doesn't seem 
to exist.  Where am I going wrong?  

octave-3.2.3:1> textread()
error: `textread' undefined near line 1 column 1
octave-3.2.3:1> 

Cheers.
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