[scilab-Users] Reading data files

[Frederic Jourdin]

Hi,
I usually do this, for 6 lines:
[ kfd, ier]= file( 'open', 'file.txt', 'old');
aHeader= read( kfd, 6, 1, '(a)');
...
Fred


Armando Pisani wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>  I use scilab to  perform numerical anlysis. I usually produce data files with an header that describes the content of the file, so that the first line of the file is a list of characters, while the rest of the file is a numerical matrix.
> If I ask scilab to read my files I get an error message. Is there a way to ask scilab to skip one or more lines when reading a file?
>
>   Thank you very much, yours Armando Pisani.