bugGNU Octave - Bugs: bug #46848, text file format not documented

 
 

bug #46848: text file format not documented

Submitter:  Francesco Potortì <pot>
Submitted:  Fri 08 Jan 2016 11:06:06 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Documentation
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.0.0 Release: 
Operating System:  * GNU/Linux Fixed Release:  9.4.0
Planned Release:  9.4.0
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Thu 30 Jan 2025 09:41:33 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I improved the documentation for load and save in this changeset: https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/9b84534f901b.

I'm going to call that good enough and close this bug report (only 9 years later).


Rik <rik5>
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Fri 08 Jan 2016 11:06:06 AM UTC, original submission:  

As far as I can find in the manual, the text file format of Octave is not documented.

For example, the -ascii option to save() does not mention how the text file is written: it should mention save_precision(), should say what the separator is, should say that rows are separated by newlines.

As another example, load() is said to be able to read Octave text files, but to understand what is the used format, one must resort to looking at how Octave creates text files. And this is not enough: only today after years of use of Octave, while reading the help mailing list I discovered that load can read comma-separated text files, which is important information indeed.

Francesco Potortì <pot>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2025-01-30 rik5 Item GroupFeature Request Documentation
        StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 9.4.0
        Planned ReleaseNone 9.4.0
    2016-01-08 siko1056 StatusNone Confirmed

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