Re: textread substitution

[Philip Nienhuis]

ash wrote
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to substitute textread function because i hade to use an old
> version of Octave.

Exactly what version?


> Every guide I read tell the same thing: use fscanf.
> But fscanf works differently.
> I have a file.txt made in this way
> 
> acb
> qwertyuiop
> mickey
> mouse
> ...
> 
> I need to get a vector in wich every cell is an entire row of this file
> (and not a matrix with a single letter for every cell).
> Can you help me ?
> 
> Thanks a lor

Use something like <very rough):

<pre-allocate cell array, otherwise your code will take forever>
:
fid = fopen (...)
str = '';
while (ischar (str))
  str = fgetl (fid, ....)
  <append str to cell array>
endwhile

See: help fgetl

----or (even uglier)----

<open file>
str = fgets (file, <very_big_number_sufficient_to_read_entire_file>)
vector = strsplit (str, "\n")

See: help fgets

As fgets and fgetl are very similar they might be interchanged here.

(I don't know strsplit's performance but is has been tuned up by one of the
devs a while ago so shouldn't be too bad).


Philip




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