[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51231] textscan skips line ending

[Julius Popp]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #51231 (project octave):

Thanks for the explanation, I'll be able to adapt to the current version now.

I'd like to ask about the documentation as I understand it that textscan does
handle lines.


Octave 4.0.3 documentation:

 -- Function File: C = textscan (FID, FORMAT, N)
...
"When reading from file, N specifies the number of data lines to read; in this
sense it differs slightly from the format repeat count in strread."


Octave 4.2.1 documentation and
https://octave.sourceforge.io/octave/function/textscan.html:

C = textscan (fid, format, repeat)
...
The optional numeric argument REPEAT can be used for limiting the
     number of items read:
...
     N          
Read until the first of two conditions occurs: 
1) the format has been processed N times, or 
2) N lines of the input have been processed. 



p.s. I do not have easy access to a Matlab system right now.



p.p.s.: I tried to build a workaround which unfortunately does skip empty
lines (worked around that as well):

        line = textscan(fid, '%s', 1, "Delimiter", "\r\n");     

        words = strsplit(line{1}{1}, {" ", "\t"});


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