can 'octave' load raw binary files ?

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- soren at hauberg.org wrote:

> Quoting Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh at yahoo.com>:
> > I read output of "help load" and it looks like 'octave' cannot load  
> > raw binary files, I mean,
> > the files containing just sequence (memory dump) of, say, double  
> > precision FP numbers - the
> > sequence can be created by, say, 'fwrite' called on an array of doubles.
> 
> Can't you simply load them using 'fread' ? The 'load' command have no  
> way of determining how data is stored in some binary blob, since such  
> a file doesn't have any meta-data.
> 
> Søren
> 
> 

I most probably can - didn't think about 'fread' in 'octave', though I'm using it in "C"
for the same purpose.

Regarding 'load' - you comment is correct, but I was thinking of additional formats like
'native_double, 'native_float', etc.

Thanks for the tip,
  Sergei.


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