Re: how to know number of lines from input file

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> At the risk of sounding like a heretic here.  Have you looked at python?
> A colleague of mine wrapped a python script around my octave script that
> did much like you asked for.
>
> In five minutes he had a script that read a file took out lines,
> interpreted variations of those lines/files and basically removed
> everything but just the data that I wanted.  And, when that data wasn't in
> the right format for octave, his script changed the lines to make them
> octave script compatible.  And, we're talking lots of variations and some
> weird data files, too.
>
> I think the latest python version that will run on Win98 is 2.5.4
>
> Anyway, the two together are awesome.
>

Yes, and you probably haven't seen Pytave yet :)
https://launchpad.net/pytave/

best regs

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
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Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
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