read external file with comments into a matrix

• Subject: read external file with comments into a matrix
• From: Sebastian Ehrhart
• Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:47:14 +0200

Hello,

I want to use Maxima for data analysis and want to read in an external file with comment lines in the first rows. The external file looks like:

# p=1013 T=293
# x y
80.00  0.88                                                              
100.00 0.89
... a lot of more rows

read_matrix(file) fails because of the comments. The optimal solution I was looking for would be tell Maxima everything in file that starts with # is a comment.
On the other side saving the header as string could be useful for later use.
Did anyone before encountered this problem and has a solution for it?

Thanks a lot,

Sebastian
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