matlab textreads has a "commentstyle" option
where all lines starting with a "#" or "%" or "//"
are commented out when flag is set to "matlab"
or "shell" or "c++" resp. this should be simple to implement.
I gave a try (see patch below) but haven't succeed so far.
textread.cc uses classes and I am not familiar with this type of
programming. may I ask real C++ programmers in this forum
to help me solving this problem?

with the patch below, the lines that start with # are
ignored. the output structure has the right number of
rows but they are all empty :-(

eric

PS: a test example

textread("file.txt","%d %d %d")

http://www.nabble.com/file/p25803121/file.txt file.txt 

diff -c old/textread.cc new/textread.cc
*** old/textread.cc     2009-10-08 16:12:30.000000000 +0200
--- new/textread.cc     2009-10-08 16:12:59.000000000 +0200
***************
*** 94,99 ****
--- 94,100 ----
            while (!tmpdata.eof()) {
                tmpdata.getline(buf, BUFFER_SIZE);
                if (_lines < headerlines || std::string(buf).length() != 0) {
+                 if (std::string(buf)[0] != '#')
                    _lines++;
                }
            }
***************
*** 130,140 ****
      void
      readline()
      {
!         data.getline(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE,'#');
!       if (std::string(buffer).length() != 0) {
            line.str(buffer);
            line.clear();
!       }
      }
  
      bool
--- 131,144 ----
      void
      readline()
      {
!         data.getline(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
! 
!       if (std::string(buffer).length() != 0)
!         if (std::string(buffer)[0] != '#') {
            line.str(buffer);
            line.clear();
!         }
! 
      }
  
      bool
***************
*** 224,229 ****
--- 228,234 ----
  
      std::string filename = args(0).string_value();
      std::string format = args(1).string_value();
+     std::string commentstyle = "";
      unsigned int headerlines = 0;
  
      int repeat = 0;
***************
*** 241,246 ****
--- 246,253 ----
  
        if (prop == "headerlines")
          headerlines = args(i+1).int_value();
+       else if (prop == "commentstyle")
+       commentstyle = args(i+1).int_value();
        else
        error("Unknown property %s.",prop.c_str());
  
***************

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