[scilab-Users] text file I/O

[Mathieu Dubois]

Hello David,

I'm not an expert but I had to read those kind of files...
> fscanfMat fails while reading first non real element (date typically).
fscanfMat reads data written by fprintfMat... The hard part in your data 
is that it mixes text and numbers.
> Using formatted input fonctions like mfscanf or mgetl and msscanf 
> combination could be automated to adapt to different number of 
> numerical series : has anyone already written something like,that can 
> be shared ?
In your case you can:
1) read the number of data per line (on the first line)
2) create a format string using the right number of '%e'
3) use mfscanf with -1 iterations

The hard part is that you don't how many matrices mfscanf will return so 
you have to use the form L=mfscanf(-1, fd, format) and then reextract 
your data as a matrix.

Have a look at the attached files. I have tested it with the data you 
sent and a data set with 7 columns. It works.

HTH,
Mathieu
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