Seems like my files also contained blank lines periodically. I added blank
line removal to the sed script and now it all works.
Thanks a lot!
On Friday, July 18, 2014 2:35:18 PM UTC+2, Mauro wrote:
>
> on julia0.3 this works:
>
> julia> readdlm("fl")
> 3x3 Array{Float64,2}:
> -70.0 -70.0 3.0982e-10
> -69.4531 -70.0 2.54816e-10
> -68.9063 -70.0 2.23406e-10
>
> julia> readdlm("fl", Float64)
> 3x3 Array{Float64,2}:
> -70.0 -70.0 3.0982e-10
> -69.4531 -70.0 2.54816e-10
> -68.9063 -70.0 2.23406e-10
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 13:15, Andrei Berceanu <andreib...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Here is 1 line from one of my files, after sed-magic:
> >
> > -70.0000000000000 -70.0000000000000 3.098203380460164E-010
> > -69.4531250000000 -70.0000000000000 2.548160684589544E-010
> > -68.9062500000000 -70.0000000000000 2.234061987906998E-010
> >
> > There are 2 spaces at the start of each line and then the column are
> > separated by spaces as well.
> > I tried
> >
> > readdlm(pumppath, ' ', Float64, '\n')
> >
> > and get
> >
> > file entry "" cannot be converted to Float64
> >
> >
> >
> > On Friday, July 18, 2014 1:57:00 PM UTC+2, Mauro wrote:
> >>
> >> > Space is an issue, yes, but I agree, I can process them one by one
> using
> >> > some sed scripting. I just thought there is a simple idiom
> corresponding
> >> to
> >> > Python's 2-liner above.
> >> > In fact, I am wondering, how difficult would it be to make julia
> accept
> >> the
> >> > Fortran double precision format natively - is that a big change in
> Base?
> >>
> >> I had a look: base/datafmt.jl does the file reading but it is quite
> >> cryptic and I didn't quite figure out where the conversion from string
> >> to float occurs. But probably it's done with the float64 function in
> >> base/string.jl which calls into C: src/builtins.c function jl_strtod.
> >> So, if my digging is right then it's not so easy to change and would
> >> change how strings are parsed into floats everywhere.
> >>
> >> Thus probably easiest to write a function which does the parsing.
> >>
> >> > On a separate issue, is there an equivalent to numpy's *loadtxt*?
> >>
> >> readdlm or readcsv do this. How did you do it?
> >>
> >>
>
> --
>
