Re: Should dlmwrite warn or error when using dumb separators?

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 31 August 2011 11:10, Andreas Weber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> dlmwrite("test1.log",[1.23,pi],".")
>
> $ cat test1.log
> 1.23.3.141592653589793
>
> x=dlmread("test1.log",".")
> x =
>
>   1.0000e+00   2.3000e+01   3.0000e+00   1.4159e+14
>
>
> I would expect to see a warning or error "using same character as
> decimal- and field separator"

I don't really get it. Why is this a problem? What's the whole list of
dangerous separators?

- Jordi G. H.