Re: new function: textscan.m

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:54 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 23-Oct-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
> 
> | Shall the functions below also be included in strings.txi ...
> | 
> |     @DOCSTRING(strread)
> | 
> |     @DOCSTRING(textread)
> | 
> |     @DOCSTRING(textscan)
> | 
> | I'm not sure about textread since it reads from a file. However, 
> strread(str, ...) and textscan(str, ...) work very similiarly.
> 
> Sorry, I don't know why I was thinking about strings.txi.  The
> functions that read data from files should probably go in the chapter
> on file I/O.  I guess strread should go in strings.txi.
> 
> | Maybe others too?
> 
> It might be good to do a comprehensive check of all functions in
> Octave vs. what is documented in the manual and see what is currently
> missing.  I haven't done that check in a while now.
> 
> jwe

Is io.txi the proper place for textread and textscan?

Ben

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