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Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: Fortran formatted read problem (for matlab MEX file)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:26:25 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <hd1v00$kib$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
dpb  <none@non.net> wrote:
>Nathan wrote:
>...
>> Hm. Alright. My data files do contain tabs, as I wanted to make them
>> in a readable format. (They were created through Matlab, after reading
>> in real data sheets and extracting information). Perhaps I'll try to
>> find a way to remedy that first. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I
>> think I understand how the formatting is supposed to work now, but
>> I'll definitely be back when more errors occur.
>
>Well, fixing that is pretty easy, just don't write tabs... :)

Leslie Lamport said:

    It has been suggested that building a system that allows the
    insertion of tabs into a text file should be a capital offense.
    I'm not that extreme; I think that ten years of writing COBOL
    code in Novosibirsk would be adequate punishment.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.