Re: OT: why loadcsvfile was: How to use passed Octave string parameters in C code from an Oct file

[mpender]

Andreas Weber-3 wrote
> See my other posting for a solution.
> I think you should avoid using C functions like fgets in OCT files and
> use C++ (for example iostream) instead.

I have more experience with C than C++, so when I get stuck on how to do
something complicated I tend to fall back on the C programming techniques
that I know instead of depending on iostream.  Since C++ is a superset of C,
it basically boils down to whatever approach makes the most efficient use of
my time, and I'm still updating my knowledge of C++.


Andreas Weber-3 wrote
> Why do you want to implement a function to load csv files? Do you know
> that there is already csvread and csvwrite in octave-core?

Yes; I started by trying those and found that the csvread routine does not
work well with the format of the files I am using.  The first comma
separated value in the file is an alphanumeric field that I need to preserve
and csvread always attempts to interpret it as a number and turns it into a
zero.  

Consequently, I decided to use a scanf function to extract the relevant
fields instead.

Thanks, Mike



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