Re: Riehmer, Stefan - unable to mail to octave-newsgroup

[David Bateman]

Stefan,

The maintainers list is moderated..You should subscribe at

https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/octave-maintainers

otherwise your mails to this list need to be moderated before they are
accepted, which doesn't happen instantly :-)

Regards
David

Stefan Riehmer wrote:
> Hello David Bateman,
>
> for some reason i am unable to mail the below listet text to
> address@hidden
> Maybe you can do, by copy pasting the text below. I would like to have
> a little feedback on this.
>
> thanks in advance,
> Stefan Riehmer
>
> =================================================
>
> subject: load/save for ODF-Spreadsheets
>
> I thought of a way to use ODS-"data" in octave (ODS being the open
> document spreadsheet).
>
> loadods("data.ods");   # for loading vars in all tables
> loadods("data.ods#table1");  # loading data from just "table1"
>
> To address data in cells you have to put "headings" just above the
> very first field where data begins. Therefore data can theoretically
> be spread anywhere around in the document.
> Sample "headings" are (separated by ,):
> \float f1, \bool b1 [2,3], \int32 i1 [3], \list l1 [3,2], \struct s1
> [2], \string str2 [2,3], \range r1
>
> f1 would be a single "scalar",
> b1 a "bool matrix" (since it includes dimensions),
> i1 would be converted to an int32 matrix with dimensions 3x1,
> l1 would end up as a cell array that tries to find more \type
> -definitions below to fill,
> s1 would just be as a l1 including "names",
> str2 would be a char matrix with 2x3xN  (whereby N is the length of
> the largest string),
> r1 is a range with never having dimensions
>
> When writing octave-data back to a spreadsheet it'll overwrite
> previous contents and then list "headings" and data sequentially line
> by line.
> For now it is implemented as oct-function. It includes a simple
> xml-parser (self written, just to full fill the basic needs) and
> zip-archive (http://www.artpol-software.com/ZipArchive/) for
> extracting data from those ODS-files.
>
> Maybe there are some thoughts to this.
>
> best regards,
> stefan*
> *
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