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Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no> wrote in message <008a086e-9fd0-45d6-b4ef-b3aef5c7755d@a17g2000prm.googlegroups.com>...
> 
> The TXT2MAT function you suggested earlier uses
> a syntax which is deceptively similar to a regular
> expression. I can't find any documentation for the
> function, though, so I don't know how it is implemented.
.
there's quite a lengthy doc
.
> As for text files, it's very time-consuming to mess
> with them. The only *real* time saving is to use a
> binary format. [..]
.
I fully agree. But often enough, you don't have any choice of the format of the data that is given to you.
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(sorry for the "."-lines - empty lines are not displayed here)