Re: constructing variable names from strings

[D Peter Siddons]

Hi Joao,
  Looks good. I'll try it. Interestingly, eval() is not in the on-line 
manual index.
Thanks :)
Pete.


On 06/18/2015 12:48 PM, Joao Rodrigues wrote:
> eval and strcat will do the trick.
>
> On 18-06-15 16:54, D Peter Siddons wrote:
> > Is it possible to build a variable name from strings? I'd like to 
> > batch-process a lot of data. The data is held in directories 
> > identified by the dataset number, with Octave variable names built 
> > (by a C program) from the dataset number. I then need to loop through 
> > these directories to perform more processing, loading the data and 
> > saving processed data based on the dataset ID. I need to have the 
> > variables uniquely identified with the dataset because I need to have 
> > multiple datasets in memory simultaneously.
> >
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