unable to convert filename

[Daniel Heiserer]

Hi,
I ran into a problem while loading PLAIN ascii files which where NOT in
the current directory.
AFAIK octave looks in the first line if he can something like "#name:"
If it is not there he tries to do a "$filename=~s/\..*//;" (in perl
syntax).
Unfortunately this filename might contain still characters which are not
allowed for filenames like "/". 
I see two ways to avoid that problem:
1) convert ALL not-allowed characters to "_"
2) take the filename only (get rid of directory structure)
        and then use "1)".


octave:1> load results/KAA.00000199
error: load: unable to convert filename `results/KAA.00000199' to valid
identifier
error: evaluating index expression near line 1, column 1
octave:1> 

I use octave 2.0.11. Maybe it is fixed in a later version. If not
could somebody do that?

Thanks

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