On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 14:27:16 -0400, D Peter Siddons wrote:
Hi Carlo, Ben,
Thanks for your suggestions. Joao's suggestion (using eval) was all I
needed to get the job done. I just couldn't find anything suitable in the
on-line manual, although, given the hint I could find the relevant manual
entries via Google, including those for assigning and all the other related
stuff. Curious that there isn't a full function index in the manual.
There is:
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Function-Index.html