[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50813] importdata returns cell-of-strings instead of struct

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #10, bug #50813 (project octave):

@JWE:
AFAICT importdata() invokes dlmread once it knows the delimiter so it
shouldn't be that slow.

IMO user-convenience functions like importdata.m quickly tend to turn into
dinosaurs with a lot of built-in guesswork (or if you really want, AI :-) ).
I think attempts to mimick this guesswork/AI is a nice job for a real
hobbyist; maybe we shouldn't pursue this too much.
Looking at Octave's code I see a lot of opportunities for misinterpretation of
the header line. E.g., when one of more of the column headers comprises just
digits.

The line of hyphens is skipped because it is fed to str2double that returns a
NaN (IOW, not numeric data) and then the line is added to the headerlines
collection.



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