Re: Reading data from large ascii-file

[Peter Norlindh]

Fantastic, it works now and its fast!  Thank you very much for your excellent help and quick responses!!!

 

/hpon

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:

>load(FILE) seems super-fast!  I have not been able to use the data though,
>and I have not been able to find what I need in the

>documentation<http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Simple-File-I_002fO.html#Simple-File-I_002fO>.

Read the docs for 'load'.  If you have a single gigantic matrix in your
file, you read it in variable m like this:

 m = load("file");

>How do I assign the data in a .asc or .mat to a variable?  Also, is it
>possible to list all variables that are present in the Octave session?

If it's a single matrix, do like the above.

For listing the variables use 'who' or 'whos'.

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