[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #37961] textscan : whitespace specification doesn't work

[Ben Abbott]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #37961 (project octave):

Matlab gives;


A{1}

ans = 

    'XQPCTick'
    '1552111181823'
    '1552327767233'
    '1552570758808'
    '1552819036603'
    '1553037382424'
    '1553238114161'
    '1553456459982'
    '1553687128680'
    '1553905469514'
    '1554100925005'

A{2}

ans = 

    'Tag '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '


I had expected the proper syntax to read the file to be;


B = textscan (fid, '%s %s %s', 'Whitespace', ';');


However, the results from Matlab do not match Octave.  It appears that
whitespace=";" implies that spaces, tabs and such are *not* whitespace.


B{1}

ans = 

    'XQPCTick'
    '1552111181823'
    '1552327767233'
    '1552570758808'
    '1552819036603'
    '1553037382424'
    '1553238114161'
    '1553456459982'
    '1553687128680'
    '1553905469514'
    '1554100925005'

B{2}

ans = 

    'Tag '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '
    'G8 Throw '

B{3}

ans = 

    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''
    ''



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