[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50813] importdata returns cell-of-strings instead of struct

[Marc Dirix]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50813>

                 Summary: importdata returns cell-of-strings instead of struct
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: dirixmjm
            Submitted on: Sun 16 Apr 2017 12:57:02 PM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Matlab Compatibility
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.1
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

In Octave, using importdata directly on a file return a cell containing
strings for each line of the file.
However in Matlab the same command returns a struct containing separate
textdata cell and data maxtrix.

Matlab output:
AData = importdata('Plot5G.txt')
AData = 

        data: [65160x8 double]
    textdata: {2x1 cell}


Octave:

AData = importdata('Plot5G.txt')
AData =
{
  [1,1] = Theta [deg.]  Phi   [deg.]  Abs(Grlz)[dB    ]   Abs(Cross)[dB    ] 
Phase(Cros
s)[deg.]  Abs(Copol)[dB    ]  Phase(Copol)[deg.]  Ax.Ratio[dB    ]
  [2,1] =
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [3,1] =    0.000           0.000            1.322e+01          -1.560e-01
194.336           1.302e+01              62.815           1.588e+01
  [4,1] =    1.000           0.000            1.330e+01           2.045e-01
186.123           1.309e+01              54.157           1.566e+01
  [5,1] =    2.000           0.000            1.338e+01           5.023e-01
178.192           1.315e+01              45.538           1.554e+01
.....





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