Respected Sir / Madam I am trying to read double data matrix using input command in scilab. It is behaving in a most inconsistent manner. It is promting for inputs time and again. Please help me resolve it at the earliest. I am posting the code as well. I am running the code on windows 7, with scilab 6.0.0. Please respond quickly. Your help will be priceless. Yours sincerely T.V.Chandra shekar

clc;
clear;
close;
str = input("Enter a space-separated list of numbers: ", "string");
v = evstr(strsplit(str, " "))
disp(sum(v), "The sum:");
str = input("Enter a space-separated list of numbers: ", "string");