Reading text file

[paul.carrico at free.fr]

Dear All

I'm currently trying to read a (huge = 150000 lines and up to 15 column) text file including strings and numbers ... the columns are separated by spaces

- csv_readwrite only accept commas as separation character otherwise it fails !
- using read_csv is rather long ... I mean more then an hour to read a record the file !!!!!

Does somebody has efficient algorithm for such reading ?

Thanks

Paul

PS : example of code use
###########################################################################
mode(0);

PATH_FILE = get_absolute_file_path("read_csv.sce");
FILE_NAME = 'bouteille_mixte_p2.msh';

timer();
stacksize('max');
A = read_csv(PATH_FILE + FILE_NAME,ascii(32));
[nl,nc] = size(A);

Nbre_noeuds = eval(A(5,1));
Nbre_elements = eval(A(5+Nbre_noeuds+3,1));

Noeuds = [];
Elements = [];

Noeuds = evstr(A(6:Nbre_noeuds+5,1:4));
Elements = evstr(A(Nbre_noeuds+9:Nbre_noeuds+Nbre_elements+8,:));
Elements(3) = [];
Elements(5) = [];

temps_cpu = timer();
printf("Temps lecture = %g\n",temps_cpu);

clear nl; clear nc; clear A;