[Scilab-users] Read file (.txt)

[Stefan Du Rietz]

On 2020-09-11 19:32, Samuel Gougeon wrote:
> Le 11/09/2020 à 16:51, Stefan Du Rietz a écrit :
>> Hello Samuel,
>>
>> read() never works OK with m = -1, see your own comment in Bug 15075!
>>
>> This prevented me from upgrading to Scilab 6 until I found out how to 
>> do it with fscanfMat(). But then I had to remove all blank lines in my 
>> files (which I had to quickly find different parts of my data).
> 
> 
> For me, it perfectly works for Daniel's file, with 6.0.2 as well as with 
> 6.1.0.
> May be the 15075's report could be retested and updated.


With which OS? I am only using Linux (Ubuntu).

As a workaround, in Linux, you can quickly get the number of lines:
--> m = evstr(strtok(unix_g("wc -l " + filename), " "));

I will add to the bug report.

/Stefan