Re: Using a string variable as a filename

[Carnë Draug]

On 6 November 2011 16:29, Alan Slavin <address@hidden> wrote:
> How do I create a filename from a string variable, or where do find this in
> the manual?
>
> For example, in the following I want to save a graph with the filename
> "graph14" of .eps type.  However, it saves the graph under the filename
> graph.eps.
>
>  graph=strcat("graph", "14")
>  print -deps graph.eps
> Neither of the following works either
>
> print -deps "graph".eps
>
> graph=strcat("graph", "14", ".eps")
>  print -deps graph
> Thanks.
>

Have you tried the following?

print (graph, "-deps")

When you don't call the functions with (), the arguments are
considered to be strings.

Carnë