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How to make a read variable av lvalue?
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
How to make a read variable av lvalue? |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:54:28 -0500 |
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jwe
On 23-Jan-2008, Svante Signell wrote:
| Dear list,
|
| I have the following problem when coding in Octave/Matlab. After reading
| a string from an external file into a variable, like x=fscanf(...)
| resulting in x='string' how can I use this variable content as an
| lvalue, like x.a='something', where x is replaced by its string value,
| resulting in string.a='something' instead of x.a='something'.
|
| For functions calls eval() can be used but what about string
| substitution? BTW: We are writing som general software in Matlab/Octave
| and are planning to use eval() extensively in loops. How slow it is
| compared to fixed function calls?
|
| Thanks