Re: passing strings to GNUplot

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 14:13:41 -0600 (MDT), 
>>>>>      "David D. Clark" <address@hidden> said:


> Is there a way to pass a file name stored as a string to the gnuplot
> command "output"

> pfile="data.ps"
> gset output pfile

> this results in the error:

octave> pfile="data.ps"
octave> gset output pfile
octave> 
gnuplot> set output pfile 
>                     ^
>          line 0: expecting filename

> any help would be appreciated

> Dave

First of all you have to quote the filename, and secondly you must use
eval since gnuplot cannot expand strings .

Use

octave> eval(["gset output \"" pfile "\""])

Mario