Re: load problems

[Joao Cardoso]

> On  3-Aug-2000, Joao Cardoso <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | "John W. Eaton" wrote:
> | > 
> | > On  2-Aug-2000, Ben Sapp <address@hidden> wrote:
> | >
> | 
> | ...
> | 
> | > Of course, Octave should probably also allow
> | > 
> | >   x = load ("some-odd-file-name.dat")
> | > 
> | > so all of this would be unnecessary.  Anyone care to implement it and
> | > submit a patch?
> | > 
> | > jwe

Another try. Please check the docs wording.

Joao

PS-sorry, the enclosed patch also contains my structures/lists save/load
patch

 - Command: load options file v1 v2 ...
     or
       `load("option_1",..., "file", "v1", "v2" ,...)'
     or
        [..., num] = load ...'
...
     If using the third syntax of `load', the specified return variables
     will be used to hold the loaded values. Variables will be loaded
     in order until the return list is exausted. NUM hold the number of
     sucessefully loaded variables.

          [a, b, c, num] = load("foo.dat", "x1", "y", "x3")
          
          gives, if "foo.dat" has variables X1, X2, X3 with values
`1,2,3'
          
          a = 1
          b = [](0x0)
          c = 3
          num = 2

     Wildcarding the argument variables overwrites the corresponding
     output variable, e.g. `[a, b, c, num] = load("foo.dat", "x*")'
     will return only variable A with the last X* variable found, but
     NUM will report that 3 variables has been loaded.

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