1 ## Copyright (C) 2008 Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws>
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17 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{names} =} caseread (@var{filename})
18 ## Read case names from an ascii file.
20 ## Essentially, this reads all lines from a file as text and returns
21 ## them in a string matrix.
22 ## @seealso{casewrite, tblread, tblwrite, csv2cell, cell2csv, fopen}
25 ## Author: Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws>
26 ## Description: Read strings from a file
28 function names = caseread (f="")
35 ## FIXME: open a file dialog box in this case when a file dialog box
37 error ("caseread: filename must be given")
40 [fid msg] = fopen (f, "rt");
41 if fid < 0 || (! isempty (msg))
42 error ("caseread: cannot open %s: %s", f, msg);
52 error ("caseread: error closing f")
54 names = strvcat (names);
60 %! n = ["a ";"bcd";"ef "];
61 %!assert (caseread ("caseread.dat"), n);