"Column number is less than one." for sparse matrix format

I have a sparsematrix.mat of size 5036 * 12570
The sparsematrix looks like this:
5036 12570 34996
7582 1
11829 2
997 1 9301 1
1377 2 7582 19
241 1 1282 3 3001 1 3062 1 3757 1 4278 1 4423 2 4964 1 5967 1 6064 1 8407 1 9927 1 9978 2 10452 1 11010 1 11692 1
1100 1 1973 1 3331 1 4635 1 5891 1 7910 1 7993 1 12149 1 12371 2
7967 2 9935 2 11632 4 11804 2 12305 4
8870 2 11829 2

I'm pretty sure that the index starts from 1 instead of 0 and there should be no 0 in this file. But I still got the
following error:

./vcluster sparsematrix.mat 10
Error: Column number is less than one. Ncols=12570, ColNum=0, Row=1

When I transform the matrix into dense format, it works ok. Just don't understand why this is happening.

RE: Hey! i've encountered the

Hey! i've encountered the same problem using cluto latest version. hope you can help me with this. I've tried the solution stated above,more errors came up
eve isk

RE: Oreka, I found answer!

Thia problem raises because of in your input matrix column number start from zero; maybe you use C,C++ or python for programming. column number must start from one.
With regards,
S. Ali Hosseini D.

RE: Which version of Cluto are

Which version of Cluto are you using?

RE: Column number is less than one

Hi,
I'm also facing the problem.
The version I'm using is Cluto 2.1.2.
the sparse matrix size is 94 * 702
The error msg shown is:- Column number is less than one. Ncols=702, ColNum=0, Row=0
I'm using Ubuntu 7.10.
plz let me the solution for this ASAP.

Prashant More
CDAC Mumbai,
India

RE: I believe your input files

I believe your input files must have trailing spaces. Remove them and see if the problem goes away.

RE: I checked it!

I checked your solution but I didn't success.
My database stored in txt format (matrix.txt), is this wrong? How is about rlabel, clabel and rclass files?

With regards,
S. Ali Hosseini D.