Re: load ASCII file

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Victor Munoz wrote:

> > I've found that the load command is quite sensitive. For instance, it fails
> > if any line has a blank after the last numerical element. Is there FAQ  for
> > the load command anywhere?
>
>   Are you sure its's so sensitive. I'm using octave 2.0.16 and tried
> puting blanks at the end of any or all lines in my data, and load works
> well.


Is it possible that Paul's problem has to do with ^M characters at the
ends of the lines?  A file transferred in binary format by ftp or by scp
from a Windows machine to unix will have those annoying characters at the
ends of the lines, but not all programs will display them.  I've had many
occasions where students have been unable to run scripts, or whatever,
because of those ^M characters, but they didn't know what was going on
because they couldn't see the characters.

Mike



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