"save" and "load" commands

[John W. Eaton]

On  8-Dec-1999, Michelle L Povinelli <address@hidden> wrote:

| I would like to successively load data from, for example,
| files named "myfile1," "myfile2," "myfile3,"... etc.
| If I create a string variable holding the file name,
| and try to load it with
| 
| for ii=1:200
| filename=["myfile" num2str(ii)]
| load filename
| end
| 
| octave tries to load from the file "filename," not "file1," etc.
| How do I force evaluation of the string variable in the load (or save)
| commands?

Write either

  load (filename);

or

  eval (sprintf ("load %s", filename));

jwe



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