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<p>Hi all,</p>
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<p>This is both a rant and desperate cry for help.<br>
I'm trying to parse some TSV data (tab separated data file) with
scilab and I cannot find a way to navigate around the minefield of
bugs present in meof/mgetl/mgetstr/csvRead.</p>
<p>A bit of context: I need to load into scilab data generated by a
closed source software.<br>
The data is in the form of many TSV files (that I cannot share in
full, just some redacted bits) with a header and a footer.<br>
I don't want to hand modify these files or edit them in any way (I
need to keep this as portable as possible, so no sed/awk/grep...)<br>
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<h2>OPTION 1: csvRead</h2>
<p>That's the most intuitive solution, however, because of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16391">http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16391</a> and the presence
of more than 1 empty line in my header/footer, this crashes
Scilab.</p>
<h2>OPTION 2: hand parsing line by line using mgetl/meof<br>
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<p>I tried:</p>
<p>filename="tsv.txt";<br>
[fd, err] = mopen(filename, 'rt');<br>
while ~meof(fd) do<br>
txtline=mgetl(fd,1);<br>
end<br>
mclose(fd)<br>
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<p>Saddly, and contrary to what's written in "help mgetl", meof
keeps on returning 0, well passed the end of the file and the
while never ends!</p>
<h2>OPTION 3: hand parsing chunk by chunk using mgetstr/meof</h2>
<p>"help meof" does not confirm that meof should work with mgetl,
but mgetstr is specifically listed.<br>
I thus tried:</p>
<p>filename="tsv.txt";<br>
[fd, err] = mopen(filename, 'rt');<br>
while ~meof(fd) do<br>
txtchunk=mgetstr(80,fd);<br>
end<br>
mclose(fd)</p>
<p>But thanks to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16419">http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16419</a>
this is also crashing Scilab.</p>
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<h2>OPTION 4: Can anyone here help me with this?</h2>
<p> I am really running out of ideas.<br>
Did I miss some -hmm- obvious combination of available file
parsing scilab functions to achieve my goal?<br>
I have the feeling that it would have been faster for me to just
learn a totally new language that does not suck at parsing files
than trying to get it to work with scilab....</p>
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<p>Antoine</p>
<p>(depressed)<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16419">http://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16419</a><br>
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