problem in reading text files

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:44 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:

> 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...

The files loaded for me as well ... once I applied to dos2unix  
command :-)

Prior to that, neither would load.

Ben