[julia-users] Reading one field from a file

[Victor Liu]

I have a text file of the following format:

--- snip ---
Nx Ny
dx dy

v(x1,y1)
v(x2,y2)
...
v(xNx,y1)
v(x1,y2)
...
v(xNx,yNy)
--- snip ---

In C, I would normally use fscanf to read in the four fields at the top 
first, then loop through and read in the rest.
What is the idiomatic way of achieving the same thing in Julia? I would 
like the list of numbers to end up in a matrix of the proper size.
As far as I can tell, there's no simple way of reading only one textual 
field from a file at a time.

[julia-users] Creating a package with bundled C++ code

[Victor Liu]

I am trying to create a Julia package that bundles with it some C++ code 
(in this case, just a single file). I would like, when installing the 
package, to have the C++ code compiled as a shared library which then a 
Julia module in the package can ccall into. What is the best way to do 
this? I am looking into the BinDeps package, but that seems to pull in 
dependencies from web sources rather than compile local files. Furthermore, 
the C++ code needs to link against Julia's Lapack library, which I also am 
unsure how to do.