<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Input and Output - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Debugging.html#Debugging" title="Debugging"> <link rel="next" href="Plotting.html#Plotting" title="Plotting"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Input-and-Output"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Plotting.html#Plotting">Plotting</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Debugging.html#Debugging">Debugging</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">14 Input and Output</h2> <p>Octave supports several ways of reading and writing data to or from the prompt or a file. The simplest functions for data Input and Output (I/O) are easy to use, but only provide limited control of how data is processed. For more control, a set of functions modelled after the C standard library are also provided by Octave. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Basic-Input-and-Output.html#Basic-Input-and-Output">Basic Input and Output</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions.html#C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions">C-Style I/O Functions</a> </ul> </body></html>