Re: sprintf to make filenames

[John Day]

Use the "eval() function", Mike,

eval(['save -ascii ', sprintf("file_%04d.dat",i),' matrixdata']);

-jday

At 10:33 AM 3/11/02 -0600, Mike Miller wrote:
> Hello all--
>
> I want to be able to use the usual save command of this form:
>
> save -ascii file_0001.dat matrixdata
>
> but I'd like for the filename to be determined by a variable in this sort
> of way:
>
> i=1;
> save -ascii sprintf("file_%04d.dat",i) matrixdata
>
> That doesn't work because Octave doesn't seem to interpret the sprintf
> command to produce the string for the filename.  How can I get this to
> work?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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