Looking for tips for rapid conversion of string to matrix
I have data that I retrieve from a database which is in a pipe-delimited string format. For example "70|71|69|78". These strings represent numeric measurements.A large number of measurements are made and the resulting strings are really long. On top of that I have a large dataset of these strings.What I need to do is convert the strings to a matrix ( vector really ) and run some aggregating statis...