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Reading Text File Headers
Syntax headers = read(file, "headers")
See Also read(file, mtype) , bread(file)

Description
Reads text headers from the specified file and returns a character matrix containing the headers in the given text file. The argument file has the same meaning as in read(file, mtype) . The returned value headers contains N rows where N is the number of headers at the current line in the file file. Headers in the input file file must be separated by spaces or tabs and each header string must not contain spaces or tabs.

The first row of the resulting matrix corresponds to the first header, the next row to the next header, and so on.

Examples
If you have a data file, "temp.dat" that contains the following
     Sample1   Sample2 Sample3
     1.1       1.2       1.3
     2.1       2.2       2.3
 and you enter
     clear
     file = "temp.dat"
     read(file, "headers")
 O-Matrix will respond,
     Sample1   Sample2   Sample3
 If you continue by entering
     read(file, "real", 2, 3)
 O-Matrix will respond,
     {
     [ 1.1 , 1.2 , 1.3 ]
     [ 2.1 , 2.2 , 2.3 ]
     }

The read function can also read text files that contain multiple header lines at arbitrary lines within the numeric data. If you have a sample file "headers.dat" that contains,
     Test One
     Sample1 Sample2 Sample3
     1.1  1.2  1.3
     2.1  2.2  3.3
     Test Two 
     Sample4 Sample5 Sample6
     3.1  3.2  3.3
     4.1  4.2  4.3
     5.1  5.2  5.3
 and you enter,
     clear
     file = "headers.dat"
     read(file,"char",1)            # skip descriptive text line
     H1 = read(file, "headers")      # read first header line
     D1 = read(file, "real", 2, 3)   # read the 2 lines of data that follow
     read(file,"char", 1)
     H2 = read(file, "headers")       # read next header line
     D2 = read(file, "real", 3, 3)    # read the 2 lines of data that follow
     # print headers and data for 'Test One'
     print H1.row(1), H1.row(2), H1.row(3)
     print D1
     # print headers and data for 'Test Two'
     print H2.row(1), H2.row(2), H2.row(3)
     print D2
 O-Matrix will print,
     Sample1 Sample2 Sample3 
     {
     [ 1.1 , 1.2 , 1.3 ]
     [ 2.1 , 2.2 , 3.3 ]
     }

     Sample4 Sample5 Sample6 
     {
     [ 3.1 , 3.2 , 3.3 ]
     [ 4.1 , 4.2 , 4.3 ]
     [ 5.1 , 5.2 , 5.3 ]
     }

The header values can be used for labelling graphs and other O-Matrix output. If you continue the example above by entering,
     gxtitle(H2.row(2))
     gplot(D2.col(2))
 O-Matrix will create a plot of the second column of data from 'Test Two' in the sample data above, using the corresponding data header value.