[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53894] The file browser tries to open some m-files as data files instead

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #53894 (project octave):

Any plain text file that contains no spaces, commas, or tabs on each line is
going to look like a Matlab format ASCII file according to Octave's current
logic.


// FIXME: looks_like_mat_ascii_file does not check to see
// whether the file contains numbers.  It just skips comments
// and checks for the same number of words on each line.  We
// may need a better check here.  The best way to do that
// might be just to try to read the file and see if it works.


The following file also looks like a Matlab ASCII file to Octave's
heuristics:


foo=12;
abs(foo)
plot(rand(12))


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