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Hello,<br>
<br>
The fact that you get a string matrix is related to the way mscanf
works (it's a bit complicated, see the examples in help page).
Basically, like scanf in C, %s reads a string delimited by
whitespace (therefore you get a string per word).<br>
<br>
To read lines in a file see mgetl.<br>
<br>
I didn't succeed to read the file you send (it looks like it
contains strange bytes and maybe that's why mscanf don't works) but
it works with the attached file.<br>
<tt>-->fd4 = mopen("P_70",'r');<br>
<br>
-->mgetl(fd4)<br>
ans =<br>
<br>
A legendary legend <br>
</tt><br>
Mathieu<br>
<br>
On 02/09/2011 10:19 AM, Loïc GIROD wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to read the
characters in the attached ASCII file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would like to use the
strings to make a legend in a graph.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I use the following code
: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter"; color:
black;" lang="EN-US">fd4</span><span style="font-size:
10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter";"
lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: rgb(92, 92, 92);">=</span>
<span style="color: rgb(50, 185, 185);">mopen</span><span
style="color: rgb(74, 85, 219);">(</span><span
style="color: rosybrown;">"P_70"</span><span style="color:
black;">,</span><span style="color: rosybrown;">'r'</span><span
style="color: rgb(74, 85, 219);">)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter"; color:
black;" lang="EN-US">x</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;
font-family: "Lucida Sans Typewriter"; color:
rgb(92, 92, 92);" lang="EN-US">=</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: rgb(50, 185, 185);" lang="EN-US">mfscanf</span><span
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Typewriter"; color: rgb(74, 85, 219);" lang="EN-US">(</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: rgb(92, 92, 92);" lang="EN-US">-</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: rosybrown;" lang="EN-US">1</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">,fd4,</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: rosybrown;" lang="EN-US">'%s'</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter"; color: rgb(74, 85, 219);" lang="EN-US">)</span><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Lucida Sans
Typewriter";" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">but I get : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">x =<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!des !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!points !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!de !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!transformations !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!simple !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!DSC !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">! !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">!Essai !<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!Air !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!Alu !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!A !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!D !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">! !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">!D !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As you can see, the
first word is missing and I don’t understand why.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Then I have not found
how to convert x in a single string.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Many thanks for the help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Loïc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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