Large Ascii Files and "textread.m"

[Ben Abbott]

On Monday, July 07, 2008, at 02:43PM, "Michael Barton" <bartonm09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm reading a large ascii file.  I want to read entire lines of the file and
>store them as strings.  Also, I need to be able to reference back in order
>to read following lines.  Hopefully, this example can demonstrate what I'm
>trying to do.
>
>MyAsciiFile.txt
>This is the 1st line of the file.
>This is the 2nd line of the file.
>This is the 3rd line of the file.
>
>I/O CODE:
>MyFileID = fopen("MyAsciiFile.txt", "r");
>StringLine1 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>StringLine2 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>StringLine3 = SomeTextReadingFunction(MyFileID);
>
>IN OCTAVE MEMORY:
>StringLine1 = "This is the 1st line of the file."
>StringLine2 = "This is the 2nd line of the file."
>StringLine3 = "This is the 3rd line of the file."
>
>>From sources online, the "textread" should accomplish this.  When I run "doc
>textread", Octave finds no entries. I'm using version 3.0.1 on XP with out
>cygwin.  Any suggestions?
>

You'll need to install the "io" package.

http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.html

If you aren't familiar with installing packages, type "help pkg" at the octave prompt.

Ben