Not to mention the fact that the MATLAB language is extremely awkward anytime you want to work with something that isn't a matrix.
> MATLAB language is extremely awkward anytime you want to work with something that isn't a matrix.
From my limited experience, that's true but rarely of relevance. You can, and want to, use matrix operations all the way. Less bugs (simplier code), faster execution.
Is that infinite recursion or endless loop? Or is there an end to it, caused by quantum nature of work -- at some point the 90% becomes an undivisible unit? ;-)
((terribly sorry, couldn't help it))
At any rate, that sounds like you want to feed the input through a pipe of simple, programmable textual filters -- cue sed, awk etc. And then pipe into standard input of something -- I know Octave has standard input, MATLAB I wouldn't be so sure.