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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Have you try csv_stringtodouble or csv_textscan ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>stacksize("max")<br><br>N=10000;<br><br>paf = string(rand(N,1));</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>tic(),R = csv_stringtodouble(paf);toc()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Allan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>De :</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Adrien Vogt-Schilb [mailto:vogt@centre-cired.fr] <br><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 29 février 2012 11:33<br><b>À :</b> users@lists.scilab.org<br><b>Objet :</b> [scilab-Users] [SPAM] how to quickly transform a string in a double when my HDD is full?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>hi<br><br>What is the fastest way to transform a column of stringed numbers in numbers?<br><br>It has come to this: I actually write my column in an HDD and then read it again. <br><br>Using the magical csv_readwrite toolblox is paradoxically faster than evstr. Here goes a fast benchmark:<br><br><br>stacksize("max")<br><br>N=10000;<br><br>paf = string(rand(N,1));<br><br>tic()<br>hop = evstr(paf)<br>disp("evstr method "+string(toc()))<br><br>tic()<br>csv_write(paf,TMPDIR+filesep()+"paf")<br>hop=csv_read(TMPDIR+filesep()+"paf")<br>disp("using HDD "+string(toc()))<br><br>tic()<br>hop = eval(paf)<br>disp("eval method "+string(toc()))<br><br> <br> evstr method 1.328 <br> <br> using HDD 0.078 <br> <br> eval method 2.094 <br><br><br>logical conclusion: Allan, can you tweak csv_readwrite so it writes to and reads from the RAM ? it would be even faster !<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Adrien Vogt-Schilb (Cired) <br>Tel: (+33) 1 43 94 <b>73 77</b><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>