Question

I’m very used to MATLAB, where I could just write:

m = load('test.dat');

m would be a a matrix of values in test.dat, as long as each line was formatted the same way. But in Octave it doesn’t work:

I tried fscanf, but the documentation is very scanty:

fh = fopen('test.dat', 'r');
[m, count] = fscanf(fh, '%10s%10s%f');

m ends up as a single dimensional array of chars.

Suppose I have the following data:

03/12/2011    00:00      0.2151
...

How can I read this into a matrix in Octave?

Answer 1

Have you consider to use dlmread?

However, if you are able to delimit the file like 03/12/2011,00:00,0.2151 then csvread will be able to handle it for you.