[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52867] textscan produces an incorrect cell array

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #52867 (project octave):

                 Summary: textscan reads text file using file handle and
produces a garbled cell array => textscan produces an incorrect cell array

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Furthermore, it makes no difference whether textscan reads from file or from
text:

>> fid =  fopen ("cruise_params.cfg.txt")
fid =  3
>> txt = fread (fid, Inf, "char=>char")';
>> C = textscan (txt, '%s%s', 'Delimiter', '=', 'CommentStyle', '#');
>> C
C =
{
  [1,1] =
  {
    [1,1] = working_directory
    [2,1] = cruise_id
    [3,1] = cruise_id_prefix
    [4,1] = correct_year
    [5,1] = use_mat_for_nav
:


(note I changed file name extension but that shouldn't matter)

and 
* commentstyle (I tried with removing the comment lines), 
* whitespace setting, 
* endofline (your file contains CRLF, I also tried with just LF) and
* delimiter (changed it into ";")
* empty fields (I added "a" after the "=" in the "cruise_***fix=" lines)
make no difference either.

I cannot confirm that the cell array is "garbled" (the cell array structure
itself looks good), it's just that the file has been read incorrectly, a.o. it
consistently skips the line "cruise_id_suffix=".

-> Title adapted


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