problem in reading text files

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, September 08, 2008, at 12:50PM, "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> wrote:
>On  6-Sep-2008, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| 
>| On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Yaping Zhou wrote:
>| 
>| > Thank you all for looking at this.
>| >
>| > The text files I sent before were from Perl. After I read your  
>| > discussion about line end characters, I used SciTE to change the  
>| > line end characters to LF and CR. I wasn't able to load any of them  
>| > ( see attachment). I was using 3.0.1 on Windows XP.
>| >
>| > Regards
>| 
>| "load NotOK2_LF.txt" works for me ... I tried both Octave 3.0.1 and  
>| 3.1.51.
>
>I checked in the follwoing changes to my sources.  These should
>probably also be applied to the 3.0.x branch.  I think this should
>allow files containing any combination of LF, CR, or CRLF to be loaded
>properly.  It works for me on a GNU/Linux system and I think it should
>also work on OS X and Windows systems.  But I can't easily check that,
>so it would be helpful if someone could test this patch on those
>systems.
>
>Thanks,
>
>jwe

I just completed a fresh build of the default branch (3.1.51) on Mac OSX 10.5.4. Each of the three versions Zhou attached to his prior email loaded without any problem.

Thanks
Ben