Re: neural Network/optimization/perl

[A+A Adler]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Daniel Heiserer wrote:
> is anybody working on/with a Neural/Network Toolbox for octave?
> Is anybody ................. Optimization Tooblox .......?
> ............................ coupling between perl and octave 
> (perl inside octave/octave inside perl)?

I call octave from perl and perl from octave all the time.

Normally i use

system(sprintf('perl -e %s', somestring)) from octave

and 

the converse from perl.

I communicate data between the two through files or pipes.


I had an idea of writing a perl_oct  perl module which would
open octave with a popen2 and would then use tie to tie
perl variables to octave variables. Communication perl/octave
would be by perl executing octave commands through stdin, stdout.

(I realize that this is a kludge; the proper way would probably
 be to link to liboctave, but that would be far too much work
 for the simple things I had in mind)

I got as far as testing the various parts to see that it
would work, but I don't think I'll ever get around to 
writing it.



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Andy Adler,                               address@hidden



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