RE: Loading tick labels from a file

[Byron Hawkins]

On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:16 AM, Byron Hawkins <address@hidden>
wrote:

> I'm trying to make a generic octave script for generating some basic
plots, and I need to load the tick labels from a file. This works for
numeric labels:
>  
> tick_labels = dlmread(args{4})
>  
> But when I have a text label like "1K", it shows up on the axis as "0". I
tried a variety of other loading functions, but the result was the same. Is
there a way to specify that the contents are text and should be treated as
if quoted? Thanks for your help.
>  
> Byron

Can you give us an example of the file you are reading?  Does it contain all
labels with double quotes on one line? Or one label on each line without any
quotes, or something else?

Ben

I've tried a few ways. When I put them on separate lines, the labels show up
on the wrong tick marks, so I mostly experimented with them all on one line.
For example:

1,10,100,1K

And:

 1,10,100,"1K"

And:

1,10,100,'1K'

What's the normal way to do this?