Re: Strings not compatible with Matlab?

[Paul Kienzle]

Julian DeMarchi wrote:

> There's also the poor man's (older Matlab) hack -- basically same as the above 
> -- declaring
>
>         function assignin(ws,name,v);
>                 evalin(ws, [name '=' num2str(v)]);
>
> ..which works because num2str() acts more accurately as if it would be called 
> makestr() (turns anything into type string, meaning the function does not break 
> even when v is not numeric).
>
> As for Octave, if you hack
>
>         function evalin(ws,name,v);
>                 eval([name '=' num2str(v)]);
>
> Then you're all set.  
>  
I believe you mean assignin here.  Regardless, it will not work.  If
it does, that means there is a bug in octave.

> (Octave/forge supports neither assignin nor evalin.)
octave now supports evalin (cvs version).  

> Disclaimer: Note however I am not entirely clear on how Octave variable scope is handled.  I notice that the above example works fine in octave so long as endfunction is not used to conclude function evalin(). 
>
>  
Paul Kienzle
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