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Re: Reading files is slow
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Tom Kornack |
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Re: Reading files is slow |
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Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:16:32 -0400 |
Notes:
1. Indeed, I should clarify that I'm reading a text, tab-delimited
file. Is there an easy way (is there a common tool) to convert this
file into a binary file?
2. load seems to be finicky about carriage returns and line feeds. I
work in an extremely heterogeneous computing environment. What is
octave's requirement and is there a convenient tool to convert text
files to have the appropriate line ending sequence?
3. Please excuse my skull thickness, but can you clarify this process
of putting text data into a buffer by treating it as binary? I'm afraid
I need some examples. And why wouldn't this be implemented in a decent
text-data reading algorithm?
4. I can't find the procedure wavread. Is this shorthand or a procedure?
Tom
On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 14:13 America/New_York, Ramil G. Sagum
wrote:
don't read text data as text. treat the file as binary and put it into
a
buffer. classifying a file as 'text' adds some processing.
(wavread-ing a
10Meg wave file, for example, takes only a few seconds.)
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