Re: loading incremented files

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

James,

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 01:30:04PM -0400, James Cooley wrote:
> I would like to have octave load each file individually, do some
> processing, save a value and load the next to continue the cycle.  I
> have tried making a string variable which would increment the file,
> e.g.,
> 
> for i=1:100
> temp = ['stuff',i,'.dat']
> load -ascii temp
> end
> 
> but this tries to load the file 'temp' not stuff#.dat.  How can I get
> octave to load each file individually without doing it manually???

Wrap it into a call to eval(). Eg

for i = 1:100
    cmdstr = sprintf("load -ascii stuff%d");
    eval(cmdstr);
    # do stuff
end

should work. Of course, you can put the sprintf inside of eval, but I like
to inspect the generated string first.

Regards, Dirk

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