[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38699] Textread in io package buggy, does not have all Matlab functionality

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #38699 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Duplicate              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Yeah, known issue. See #33875, #36819, and several postings in the mailing
lists.
It would have been better to first search the bug tracker for similar reports,
would have saved you and me and other people a few mails.

There's a bug report about it from -well?- 1.5 or 2 years ago summing up all
missing functionality, see bug #33875

Here's a strread.m (work horse for textscan.m/textread.m) that has preliminary
[] format support:

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7817

All bets are off as to whether it works with current textread.m/textscan.m.
But you could be lucky.

Anyway this issue isn't going to be solved soon.
Nobody has the time and/or inclination to start building a binary textscan.
See the maintainers ML of (IIRC) Aug 2011 for a start of a binary textscan

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