[Haskell-cafe] Data import from octave / text file

[Lars Viklund]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:13:49AM -0700, kaffeepause73 wrote:
> The folloing file log.txt contains three signal traces in the three columns
> (time, signal 1, signal 2)
> 
>  0 30 9
>  0.1 30 9
>  0.2 30 9
>
>      let m = read text :: [[Double]]
> 
> SecondLot
> signalImport: Prelude.read: no parse

Instances of Read tends to expect the format that Show would output. In
the case of lists, it's [elem1,elem2,elem3].

You can either modify your exporter to output values in the format that
read expects, or you could use a combination of the functions 'lines',
'words' and 'read' to split the input into a list of lines, split each
line into a list of words, and finally use read to go from word to
Double. 

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Lars Viklund | zao at acc.umu.se