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Revamp strread, textscan, textread functions for Matlab compatability Implemented ML-compatible whitespace and delimiter defaults Implemented ML-compatible options: 'whitespace', treatasempty', format string repeat count, user-specified comment style, uneven-length output arrays, %n and %u conversion specifiers (provisionally) Implemented processing of given-width format specifiers * textscan.m: Add new tests. Implement EndofLine, ReturnOnError, TreatAsEmpty options. Improve whitespace handling. * textread.m: Add new tests Implement EndofLine option. Improve whitespace handling. * strread.m: Major rewrite.
author Philip Nienhuis <prnienhuis@users.sf.net>
date Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:05:26 -0700
parents cad4cba03f19
children 4ec4096f65d1
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  ** The PCRE library is now required to build Octave.
 
+ ** strread, textscan, and textread have been completely revamped.
+
+    They now support nearly all Matlab functionality including:
+
+    * ML-compatible whitespace and delimiter defaults
+
+    * ML-compatible options: 'whitespace', treatasempty',
+    format string repeat count, user-specified comment style, uneven-length
+    output arrays, %n and %u conversion specifiers (provisionally)
+ 
  ** New functions added.
 
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