assign list of variables to a string array?

[Thorsten Meyer]

Hi,

Is there a way to assign the names of the user defined variables to a 
string array?
I tried
        a = who;
but that does not work: who has no return value.

I need a function that loads an octave data file into a structure 
variable. E.g., if the file contains three variables a,b,c, they should 
be assigned to data.a, data.b, data.c. As a workaround, I have used an 
external perl filter, that scans the data file and returns a list of 
variable names, which I can then feed into an appropriate eval command. 
But I would appreciate it very much if there was a solution within 
octave (calling perl is quite slow on my system).

thanks,

Thorsten




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