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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Stephen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>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>;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>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>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Stephen Thomas
[mailto:steeve102000@yahoo.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2009 04:20<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.scilab.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [scilab-Users] mopen command help needed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>hi im a newuser to
scilab..not much prior experience in any other equivalent software too<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><span class=pln><span style='color:#40007F'>i want to open a file for reading a set of x y z values from scilab</span></span><span
style='color:#40007F'><br>
<span class=pln> i copeied the code frm</span><br>
<span class=pln> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";
color:#40007F'><br>
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys317/lectures/readwrite.html<br>
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<span class=pln>Code</span><br>
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</span><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#40007F'> fid = mopen(filename, "r");<br>
if (fid == -1)<br>
error("cannot open file for reading");<br>
end<br>
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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>
before execution .<br>
While execution says "Undefined variable 'filename'<br>
then i changed the code to <br>
</span><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#40007F'> <br>
fid = mopen(</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#407F00'>"filename",</span></i><i><span style='font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#40007F'> "r");</span></i><span
style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#40007F'><br>
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ie added " " before and after filename then it executes..<br>
what is the problem here i cant understand it...I just copied it as it is from<br>
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys317/lectures/readwrite.html<br>
Is the syntax used here is wrong??<br>
Where should i<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span
style='font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#40007F'> get the correct syntax for the function mopen and other functions then?<br>
<br>
i tried<i> 'help mopen'<br>
</i>and it displayed<i><br>
<br>
Calling sequence<br>
<br>
[fd.err]=mopen( file [,mode ,swap]) <br>
<br>
</i>Is this the proper syntax ?? I dont think so ,where should i get the corret sequence then?<br>
somebody please help..<br>
Thanks<i><br>
<br>
<br>
</i><br>
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