Re: Command subtitution in octave / matlab ?

[Leo Butler]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

< Hello! 
< 
< I'm trying to figure out something, but I'm stuck.
< 
< Here's what I'm trying to do : I have two matrices, one named data,
< which contains multiple columns of SPICE results, and the other named
< labels, which contains the title of each row. Here's an example, for the
< sake of clarity : 
< 
< labels =
< {
<   [1,1] = time
<   [2,1] = vin
<   [3,1] = v_offset
<   [4,1] = vg
<   [5,1] = vinp
< ... etc.
< }
< 
< data =
<    0.00000   0.00000   0.90000   0.90000   0.90000
<    0.00000   0.00063   0.90000   0.90000   0.90031  
<    0.00000   0.00126   0.90000   0.90000   0.90063   
<    0.00000   0.00251   0.90000   0.90000   0.90126
<    0.00000   0.00503   0.90000   0.90000   0.90251
<    0.00000   0.01005   0.90000   0.90000   0.90503
< ... etc.
< 
< Now, I would like to create a new matrix (column vector) for each column
< of my data, and name these matrices by their corresponding labels. 
< 
< Say :     time = data(:,1), vin = data(:,2), etc.
< 
< I tried : labels(1) = data(:,1). But it only associates time with the
< 1st value of data(:,1)
< 
< So, to recapitulate, my question is : How can I use the string in
< labels(1) to define a new variable?
< An analogy with bash would be : $(labels(1)) = data(:,1), the use of a
< command substitution. I can't find any equivalent in Octave / Matlab.
< 
< Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me on this matter!
 
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Leo.

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