[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51871] loading '-ascii' format files is slow

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #18, bug #51871 (project octave):

The rest of Octave goes to great lengths to support text files with CR LF or
CRLF line endings on any system, not just the native line ending for a given
system, typically by opening all files as binary and liberally accepting any
combination of CR and LF as the end of a line.  As far as I know, that's the
way Matlab also behaves.  We have often received bug reports about files that
can't be processed that have turned out to be due to getting this wrong.  It's
confusing to users, because the tools they use to display files don't usually
show these characters, so they don't know what the line ending characters are.
 So I'd prefer to continue to liberally accept any combination of these
characters to mean the end of a line.

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