Re: advice / help needed for reading formatted text (textscan, strread, & textread)

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Nov-2010, John W. Eaton wrote:

| On 16-Nov-2010, Ben Abbott wrote:
| 
| | John, reading this again it looks to me like someone needs to take
| | the lead. Give my lacking for c/c++ skill, should I enter a "new
| | feature" request in the tracker?
| 
| I started working to add the new escape features to scanf but then I
| got distracted and haven't finished it.  I'll try to finish it this
| week.

After looking at this again, I think it might be best to provide a
separate textscan function in C++ instead of trying to overload scanf
to also do the work of textscan as I had originally planned.  Some
code could probably be shared with scanf, but it will take more work
than I first thought.

jwe