Re: loading data

[Mario Storti]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:21:25 -0600 (MDT), 
>>>>>      "David D. Clark" <address@hidden> said:

> I would like to be able to use the input command to load a file name
> without an extension, <filename>, use the strcat command to concatenate
> the string with the appropriate extension, <ext> and then use the load
> command to load the file <filename>.<ext>

> e.g.

> filename=input("Data File: ","s")
> datafile=strcat(filename,".dat")
> load datafile

> However, when I run this, the following error occurs

> octave:47> filename=input("Data File: ", "s")
> Data File: m0812x
> filename = m0812x
> octave:48> datafile=strcat(filename,".dat")
> datafile = m0812x.dat
> octave:49> load datafile
> error: load: couldn't open input file `datafile'
> error: evaluating index expression near line 49, column 1

You should write

octave> eval(["load " filename])

Hope this helps

Mario

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