Re: Using strings as arguements?

[Paul Kienzle]

On Dec 7, 2003, at 6:02 PM, Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> I'd like to be able to do something like this:
>
> gset terminal postscript
> for d=2:50
>         c = polyfit(xs,ys,d);
>         yvals = polyval(c,xvals);
>         figure (d)
>         hold off
>         title (sprintf('d = %d', d));
>         filename = sprintf ("%d.ps");
>         gset output filename
>         plot(xvals,yvals,xs,ys,'*')
> end
>
> Unfortuantely, gset complains that it's expecting a filename, by which
> it appears to mean a properly quoted string.  Is there a way I can get
> octave to do this?

eval (sprintf("gset output '$d.ps'",d));



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