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

[Philip Nienhuis]

Update of bug #51231 (project octave):

              Item Group:                    None => Matlab Compatibility   
                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              

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Follow-up Comment #4:

So "help textscan" says:

_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._

I am not sure if the second of those is Matlab compatible. Maybe that is a
relict from the time textscan was implemented as an .m file (but I even doubt
that, I think it is plain wrong).

In the mean time I've checked with Matlab and indeed that behaves differently
than Octave. Admittedly a bit of a surprise for me :-)

The issue may boil down to incorrect default whitespace and -delimiter
settings. There's another bug report that I suspect also relates to that.
Nowadays textscan is a binary function and my C++ proficiency is a bit lacking
- when textscan was an .m file I could do something about it.

Status -> Confirmed
Item group -> Matlab compatibility


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