problem in reading text files

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Yaping Zhou <yaping at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I have been having problems with loading text files in Octave versions later
> than 2.1.50.
>
> Attached are two text files that are formatted the same. I tried to load
> them in version 3.0.1 running on XP. One works but the other doesn't. If I
> open the NotOk.txt file, add or delete some white spaces and save it, for a
> unknown reason, sometimes the file becomes loadable.
>
> Somehow version 2.1.50 has been very robust for me in terms of loading text
> file.
>
> Can you please confirm the problem I saw and help. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Yaping Zhou
>
> (See attached file: OK.txt)(See attached file: NotOK.txt)

I cannot load any of these unmodified, but can load both if I strip '\r'
(Carrige Return) character from the end of the lines.

The format of the files look somewhat different from what  I get with
octave 3.0.2. I do not know if that matters or not.

2.1.50 is really ancient version so many things have changed...

Sincerely,

Dmitri.
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