problem with textread

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:00 AM, george brida wrote:

> Hi,
> attached the file "bigo.txt".
> I used the following syntax
> addpath(C:\programfiles)
> textread('bigo.txt', %f {,n})
>
>
> Thank you very much.

If you place the numbers into columns the job is much simpler. See  
"load" and you'll want to use the -ascii option.

For the file you provided, you can read all the data by

octave:1> fid = fopen ("bigo.txt", "r");
octave:2> data = fscanf (fid, "%f");
octave:3> close (fid)

This will read all the numbers into a single column vector.

octave:4> data
data =

    1.0000e+01
   -1.1230e+01
    1.0060e+01
    1.7280e+01
    1.2130e+01
    1.4020e+01
    1.3010e+01
    1.3008e+02
    1.2270e+01
    1.0000e+01
    1.0080e+01
    1.2000e+01
    1.3280e+01
    2.0000e+01
    1.4110e+01
    1.3050e+01
    1.4100e+01
    5.0000e-04
    2.3200e+01

Will that work for you purpose?

Ben