From: us on
"Maria_tab Manioudaki"
> There were tabs in the file
> only it seems that recognize any whitespace as such without
> dealing with its nature.
>
> I did not confirm that with hex dump, but I made the file with a previous command
> using /t.

NO - there were NO TABs in your file...
and for your future in this NG: better take your time to check your stuff before you waste time of CSSMers, eg, take the time to perform a hex dump as suggested by dpb...

us
From: dpb on
Maria_tab Manioudaki wrote:
> dpb <none(a)non.net> wrote in message
> <hntcpi$586$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>...
>> Maria_tab Manioudaki wrote:
>> > "Maria_tab Manioudaki" <Belladonna_98(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> > <hntaul$2p3$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
>> >> "us " <us(a)neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message >>
>> <hnta6o$j6f$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >> > - use this syntax...
>> >> > > [A, B] = textread([file, '.mots'], '%d\t%s');
>> >> > > us
>> >>
>> >> it won't work... :(
>> >> The file is actually a matrix
>> >> number/tstring/n
>> >> number/tstring/n
>> >> number/tstring/n
>> >> number/tstring/n
>> > > Well... it worked with [A, B] = textread([file, '.mots'], '%d%s');
>> ...
>>
>> Well....then there _weren't_ any tabs after all most likely...did you
>> confirm that w/ a hex dump or other method?
>>
>> --
>
> There were tabs in the file
> only it seems that recognize any whitespace as such without dealing with
> its nature.
>
> I did not confirm that with hex dump, but I made the file with a
> previous command using /t.

If you really used "/t" (forward slash) I don't think that put a tab
character in the file (at least w/ my release of ML it doesn't) the
escape sequence would be "\t".

>> fprintf('%d/t%s', 43,'string')
43/tstring
>> fprintf('%d\t%s', 43,'string')
43 string

I don't think there's an OS on which ML runs that it would think the
'/t' was anything but a character string to embed; I could be shown wrong...

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