Re: Save with variable argument

[Quentin Spencer]

Reiner Suikat wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This may be a stupid question.
>
> I want the following to work:
> Fname = test.mat
> save -binary Fname a b c ...
>
> It appears that whatever I give as an argument to save is taken literally,
> it simply does not substitute the filename.
> I tried 
> save -binray (fname) ...
>
> Well, it saved to (fname).
>
> What's the trick?
>  

There are two ways to do this that I can think of:

1) eval(sprintf('save -binary %s a b c',fname));

2) save('-binary',fname,'a','b','c');

The second one is probably better, because the eval function is slow and 
should be avoided if there's another way of doing things.



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