Yes, this is the intended functionality because # is used a character which
starts a comment in the file which is not parsed. The simplest way around
this is to disble comments using the named parameter `comments` like this:
readdlm(file,'\t',comments=false)
You can also change the character used for comments to something else,
using named parameter `comment_char`.
The Julia documentation about `readdlm` should explain this
(http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/stdlib/io-network/#Base.readdlm).
Perhaps if the fields are quoted, the comment character does not have
effect, but haven't checked this.
On Saturday, June 25, 2016 at 4:41:55 PM UTC-4, Anonymous wrote:
>
> Let's say I have a file of the form
>
> 1 #hello
> 2 hello
>
> Where the space between the number and the ascii string is intended to be
> a tab, then I run
>
> my_file = readdlm(file, '\t')
>
> this reads in the first line as "". Is this the desired functionality?
> It works fine with other characters like @ or &.
>
