<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thank You Francis I got it<br><br><div><font face="arial"><em>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</em></font></div> <div><font face="arial"><em>"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; </em></font></div> <div><font face="arial"><em>console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong."</em></font></div> <div><em><font face="arial"><u>Zoroaster.</u></font><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif"><br><br></em><br></div><br><div><img src="http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/474254"></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net" title="The UbuntuCounter Project - user number # 22904"><img src="http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/img/ubuntu-user2.php?user=22904" alt="The
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Stephen,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">1. Make sure that the filename is correct. If your data file is
called xyz.dat then the first command should be <i>fid = mopen(‘xyz.dat’,’r’)</i>
or you do: <i>filename = ‘xyz.dat’; fid = mopen(filename,’r’)</i>;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">2. Make sure that the data file is in the current working directory
or make sure that the path is correct for example: <i>fid = mopen(‘../data/xyz.dat’,’r’)</i>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Cheers,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Francis</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Stephen Thomas
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<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2009 04:20<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [scilab-Users] mopen command help needed</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">hi im a newuser to
scilab..not much prior experience in any other equivalent software too</p>
<pre><span class="pln"><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127);">i want to open a file for reading a set of x y z values from scilab</span></span><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><br><br> <span class="pln"> i copeied the code frm</span><br><br> <span class="pln"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><br><br> http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys317/lectures/readwrite.html<br><br> </span><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><br><br> <span class="pln">Code</span><br><br> <br><br> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"> fid = mopen(filename, "r");<br><br> if (fid == -1)<br><br> error("cannot open file for reading");<br><br> end<br><br> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><br><br>to scipad
editor and tried to execute via "Load into scilab" i had created an empty file in home directory named "filename "via gedit<br><br>before execution .<br><br>While execution says "Undefined variable 'filename'<br><br>then i changed the code to <br><br> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"> <br><br>fid = mopen(</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 127, 0);">"filename",</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"> "r");</span></i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"><br><br> <br><br>ie added " " before and after filename then it executes..<br><br>what is the problem here i cant understand it...I just copied it as it is
from<br><br> http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys317/lectures/readwrite.html<br><br>Is the syntax used here is wrong??<br><br>Where should i</span></pre><pre style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; color: rgb(64, 0, 127);"> get the correct syntax for the function mopen and other functions then?<br><br> <br><br>i tried<i> 'help mopen'<br><br> </i>and it displayed<i><br><br> <br><br>Calling sequence<br><br> <br><br>[fd.err]=mopen( file [,mode ,swap]) <br><br> <br><br> </i>Is this the proper syntax ?? I dont think so ,where should i get the corret sequence then?<br><br> somebody please help..<br><br>Thanks<i><br><br> <br><br> <br><br> </i><br><br> <br><br> </span></pre>
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