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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>fscanfMat</refname>
        <refpurpose>reads a matrix from a text file</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Syntax</title>
        <synopsis>M = fscanfMat(filename[, fmt]);
            [M, text] = fscanfMat(filename [, fmt]);
        </synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>filename</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        a character string giving the name of the file to be scanned.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>fmt</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        a character string giving the format. This is an optional
                        parameter, the default value is <literal>"%lg"</literal>.
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        Supported format: <literal>%[width].[precision]type</literal> or <literal>%type</literal> where:
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <literal>width</literal>: optional number that specifies
                        the minimum number of characters output;
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <literal>precision</literal>: optional number that
                        specifies the maximum number of characters printed for all
                        or part of the output field, or the minimum number of
                        digits printed for integer values.
                    </para>
                    <para>
                        <literal>type</literal>: lf, lg, d, i, e, f, g (see <link
            linkend="scanf_conversion">scanf_conversion</link>).
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>M</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>output variable. A matrix of real numbers.</para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>text</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        output variable. A column vector of strings. It is
                        comments in the beginning of the file <varname>filename</varname>.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            The <function>fscanfMat</function> function is used to read a real
            matrix from a text file. The first non-numeric lines of the file are
            returned in <varname>text</varname> if requested and all the remaining
            lines must have the same number of columns (column separator are assumed
            to be either white spaces or tab characters, if there are the both, white
            spaces are chosen by default). The number of columns of the matrix
            will follow the number of columns found in the file and the number of
            lines is fetched by detecting eof in the input file. This function can be
            used to read back numerical data saved with the
            <function>fprintfMat</function> (default separator used is a space).
        </para>
        <para>
            <function>fscanfMat</function> supports files encoded as ANSI/ASCII and UTF-8.
        </para>
        <para>
            To read a CSV formatted file, the <link linkend="csvRead">csvRead</link> function is recommended.
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example">
            fd = mopen(TMPDIR + "/Mat", "w");
            mfprintf(fd, "Some text.....\n");
            mfprintf(fd, "Some text again\n");
            a = rand(6,6);
            for i = 1:6 ,
            for j = 1:6, mfprintf(fd, "%5.2f ", a(i,j));end;
            mfprintf(fd, "\n");
            end
            mclose(fd);
            a1 = fscanfMat(TMPDIR + "/Mat")

            A = ones(5,5) + 0.1;
            fprintfMat(TMPDIR + "/Matrix.txt", A, "%lg");
            B = fscanfMat(TMPDIR + "/Matrix.txt", "%lg");
            A == B

            C = [%nan, %inf, -%inf, 1];
            fprintfMat(TMPDIR + "/MatrixNANINF.txt", C);
            D = fscanfMat(TMPDIR + '/MatrixNANINF.txt')

        </programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="scanf_conversion">scanf_conversion</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mclose">mclose</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="meof">meof</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mfprintf">mfprintf</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="fprintfMat">fprintfMat</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mfscanf">mfscanf</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mget">mget</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mgetstr">mgetstr</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mopen">mopen</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mprintf">mprintf</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mput">mput</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mputstr">mputstr</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mseek">mseek</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mtell">mtell</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="mdelete">mdelete</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="csvRead">csvRead</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
</refentry>
