Re: Error when using aload

[Jean-Michel besnard]

Hi

Actually what I meant to do what loading a file (ASCII text) in variable.
It seems that 'aload' is not the proper function for that purpose, what should
I then be using instead ?

Thanks,

Jean-Michel


On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:02:33AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:27:36AM -0700, Jean-Michel besnard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to load a dummy ASCII text file using aload.
> > Here is the output I am getting:
> > 
> > --START-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > octave:1> aload("/tmp/foo")
> > error: load: failed to load matrix constant
> > error: load: reading file /tmp/oct-COqQd8
> > error: called from `aload' in file 
> > `/usr/share/octave/site/m/octave-ci/filefun/aload.m'
> > 
> > --STOP------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I have tried the same on another machine running octave 2.0.17 and get the 
> > same
> > error.
> 
> Did you look at the file?  Is it in the required format?
> 
> Try creating a simple matrix inside Octave, write it with asave and the try
> aload. 
> 
> Dirk
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