[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8783] C++ implementation of textscan

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #59, patch #8783 (project octave):

Of course the new version works, I never doubted that :-)

I think it is prudent enough to start amending (stripping) strread.m and
textread.m now; they'll probably be pushed only after textscan.cc has been
integrated in core Octave. I could attach the fixed versions here.

If "ReturnOnError, 1" is specified textscan should return the elements already
read and return a file pointer pointing to a position immediately preceding
the offending field in the file. As a C++ n00b I'd think of a try-catch but
the new error functions may be better suited.

There's another not-yet-implemented property/value pair that Matlab does have:
ExpChar.

I hope to find time soon to close a lot of related bug reports w.r.t. missing
features in textscan/strread/textread and make them dependent on this report.
There must be 5 or 6 of them (maybe even more), several assigned to me.


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