On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Avishalom Shalit <[email protected]> wrote: > short comments > -- vish > > > 2009/11/10 David Mertens <[email protected]> >> >> Gabor - >> >> I felt like many of your questions deserved their own response, so I'm >> going to send a few emails in a row addressing various questions you pose. >> First, this: >> >>> Could you give use cases where a clever Matlab user would run a perl >>> script to solve a problem more easily or faster than with standar Matlab >>> tools? >> >> By clever Matlab user do you mean clever Perl user? Or clever Matlab >> user? I think a clever Matlab user could write a Perl script to digest a >> bunch of data and spit-out a csv file that Matlab could easily read and >> process. I can't speak from experience on this one. > > well i don't know about clever , but i am lazy
well the word "clever" was not a good clever choice on my part :-) > but practically > a file that looks like > 2009-09-08 12:34:56 , 0 , 1,2,3,4 , "some text i don't want to read" > 2009-09-08 12:34:56 , NULL, 1,2,3,4 , "some text i don't want to read" > > can be read in matlab using regex or fscanf (and is as much fun as it is in > C) > > in perl it is a one liner. > so i first process the file in perl , and transform it to numbers. (i > sometimes just leave the dates as 2009 09 08 12 34 56) that's what I meant and I'd like to get a few more examples if there are. Gabor _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
