Re: How to return variables from oct-file commands?

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 17, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Lukas Reichlin wrote:

> Dear Octave Community
> 
> How can I create variables from a command (written as a C++ oct-file) without 
> specifying a left-hand-side? Instead of
> 
>       [a, b, c] = syms ("a", "b", "c")
> 
> I wish to write
> 
>       syms a b c
> 
> where command "syms" should create/return the variables a, b and c in the 
> current workspace. Do you know an Octave command which could serve as a code 
> example?
> 
> Thanks for any hints and best regards
> Lukas


If I understand what you're hoping to do, assignin() looks to do what you want 
and is implemented as an oct-file.

which assignin
'assignin' is a built-in function from the file 
libinterp/parse-tree/oct-parse.cc

Ben