Re: Importing large amounts of data

[indium]

Dear Hannes,

do you realise that you are 'abusing' the source() command:

octave:1> help source
`source' is a built-in function

 -- Built-in Function:  source (FILE)
     Parse and execute the contents of FILE.  This is equivalent to
     executing commands from a script file, but without requiring the
     file to be named `FILE.m'.


I think you are really looking for the load() function: it loads your datafile 
into a variable (or several).
See 'doc load' for more info.


Otherwise, try dlmread() or go via the C-style I/O functions inside Octave:

fread() does binary reading or fscanf() formatted reading. See 'doc fread', etc.