load data from mps file for octave

[John Howard]

Przemek Klosowski <przemek <at> jazz.ncnr.nist.gov> writes:

> > I need to read mps file and then call glpk(c, a, b, lb, ub, ctype, vartype,
> > sense, param) in octave.
> > 
> > How to load the data of these input arguments for glpk from mps file ?

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> If you prefer using GLPK through Octave, however, I
> think that you will have to write MPS parser yourself.

I've also come to the conclusion that I have to write such a parser. If I get
something to work I'll report back!

For context, I'm trying out octave as the processing-end of problems setup using
zimpl. 

cheers