Description

Use to read a vector from a file. Command will fail if at the end of the file.

The following is a listing of the different cast types. Note that data can be lost when casting. 'Signed' means the value can be negative. 'Unsigned' means value will always be positive.

Cast	Description
`c`	Reads a series of signed characters, or signed 8-bit (1 byte) values, and converts them to floats
`uc`	Reads a series of unsigned characters, or unsigned 8-bit (1 byte) values, and converts them to floats
`s`	Reads a series of signed short integers, or signed 16-bit (2 bytes) values, and converts them to floats
`us`	Reads a series of unsigned short integers, or unsigned 16-bit (2 bytes) values, and converts them to floats
`i`	Reads a series of signed integers, or signed 32-bit (4 bytes) values, and converts them to floats
`ui`	Reads a series of unsigned integers, or unsigned 32-bit (4 bytes) values, and converts them to floats
`f`	Reads a series of floating point values, a 32-bit (4 byte) values, and converts them to floats

Functional area

Disk I/O

Command syntax

Syntax

readVec fileID[-delim string] [-cast string]

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Comments
`fileID`	int		ID of file previously opened with fileOpen

Flags

Name	Flag arguments	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`delim`	1	string	—	Delimiter to expect between vector channel values. Cannot be used with binary files. Usually"," or "\t", etc.
`cast`	1	string	—	Data type to cast to. Possible types are listed above. Note that data can be lost when casting data.

Return value

vector

Examples

vector $vec;
int $fileID;
int $fileID = `fileOpen "C:/FileTesting.txt" "r"`;
  
// Read the vector
// The -delims flag assumes you are reading from a text file 
$vec = `readVec $fileID -delim ","`;
fileClose $fileID;
  
// Display the value
print $vec;

Shogun 1.8 Documentation

readVec