Re: append numbers to variable

[Carlo de Falco]

On 9/7/06, Gerald Ebberink <address@hidden> wrote:
> something like this:
> x=0;
> for i=1:5
>         command=sprintf("x%d=%d",i,i);
>         eval(command);
> endfor

This works, but I don't understand why you would prefer this over:

> > x0 = 0;
> > x   = x0 + [1:5];
> > x(1)
ans = 1
> > x(2)
ans = 2
> > x(3)
ans = 3
> > x(4)
ans = 4
> > x(5)
ans = 5

i.e. why would you create a set of variables with different names instead
of storing your values in a vector?
It is much more convenient to be able to access one of the values via

> > x(i)
rather than
> > eval(sprintf("x%d",i))

-
c.