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Octave's C-style input and output functions provide most of the functionality of the C programming language's standard I/O library. The argument lists for some of the input functions are slightly different, however, because Octave has no way of passing arguments by reference.
In the following, file refers to a file name and fid
refers
to an integer file number, as returned by fopen
.
There are three files that are always available. Although these files can be accessed using their corresponding numeric file ids, you should always use the symbolic names given in the table below, since it will make your programs easier to understand.
The standard input stream (file id 0). When Octave is used interactively, this is filtered through the command line editing functions.