[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #33536] strread returns incorect results and is not compatibile with Matlab

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #33536 (project octave):

Yes I overlooked the literal "[" before "%s", sorry.

Precisely this situation (reading just one line of text) exposes a weakness of
the way I split leading literals from fields.
I have an alternative but at the time chose to not implement it as that one
might break in case of e.g., empty numeric fields next to a literal.

The underlying issue is the way Octave's strread finally reads files (after
internal preparation): columnwise, while ML probably does it line by line (and
AFAIU with binary code). 
Octave's way is fast for an m-file but makes for lots of interesting gotchas
if we want to mimic all of ML's options.

I'll have a look - I need this fixed myself as well.

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