Re: casting

[Søren Hauberg]

How about this function:

function B = cast(A, newclass)
  B = feval(newclass, A);
endfunction

If it were to be included in octave it would need to include some input 
checking but otherwise I think it does what you need.

Søren

David Grohmann skrev:
> I attempted to do a cast in octave 2.9.9 and it was not defined.
>
> like this:
> a = cast( 3.14159, 'uint32')
>
> where 'a' should equal 3 afterwards
>
> does this function still need to be written? seems easy enough, perhaps 
> I could write the mex file to do it?
>
> is there another way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks,