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

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #50813 (project octave):

If no one beats me to it, I'll have a look in the coming weeks.

I think the delimiter assessment code, currently acting on the header lines if
these are present, ultimately should be based on the purely numeric section.
This implies some fseek-ing hence and forth, but I suppose the required
execution time for that is peanuts compared to reading (large amounts of)
numeric data further on.
I also have a basic idea on how to deal with column headers comprising units
enclosed in parens or brackets separated by whitespace, once the delimiter
assessment works reliably.  But I won't try AI here :-), just basic guesswork
and if that fails just return cellstr.

(Just wondering what to do if row headers are also present...)


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