Re: textscan wanted

[Dr. Johannes Zellner]

Ben,

thanks for the quick response.
It would be more useful, if it would also allow the input parameter N.

regards,

-- 
Johannes

2010/10/20 Ben Abbott <address@hidden>

On Oct 20, 2010, at 4:53 AM, Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've a bunch of matlab files which use textscan.
>
> I don't want to replace all textscan calls with something like fscanf but I'd rather like to have an octave function which implements textscan().
>
> Does anyone have a textscan implementation?
>
> regards,
>
> --
> Johannes.

I've opened a ticket in the bug tracker.

       https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?31380

For now, have you looked at using textread() instead? Unfortunately, textread() is not fully compatible with the ML version.

The syntax for ML's textscan is ...

C = textscan (fid, 'format')
C = textscan (fid, 'format', N)
C = textscan (fid, 'format', 'param', value)
C = textscan (fid, 'format', N, 'param', value)
C = textscan (str, ...)
[C, position] = textscan (...)

If you don't require the input "N", it should be straight forward to modify scantext() to implement textscan(). A quick fix would support the limited syntax below.

C = textscan (fid, 'format')
C = textscan (fid, 'format', 'param', value)
C = textscan (str, ...)

Would that be useful to you?

Ben