From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct  4 08:56:04 1999
Subject: Re: Generating global variables locally
From: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
To: viveks at me dot iitb dot ernet dot in
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:55:12 +0200

viveks at me dot iitb dot ernet dot in wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> I am not sure whether I am going to ask a stupid question. Is it possible
> to generate, from within a function, a large number of global variables
> and assigning values to them? And, it should also be possible to destroy
> those global names as and when required by calling a similar function.
> 
> For example:
> 
> ---------------------------
> function generate_global_vars(a_vector)
> # a_vector is a vector whose size is unknown.
> 
> for val = ext
> 
> # Here I want to generate global variables
> # and assign values to them. The names and number of these global variables
> # will be different based on the size and the value of the vector. For
> # example, for a_vector = [10:5:30], I would like to create new global
> # variables y10, y15, y20, etc.
> 
> endfor
> 
> endfunction

Hmmm. Good question.
>> global a=rand(4)
works but doesnt do what I suspect.

Try:
>> global blubber=rand(3);
=====================
function test(c)

b=rand(c);
global b;

whos
=====================
>> test(5)

The whos in test.m should show blubber as I expect, but it doesn't.
Also I would expect to have a "b" in my workspace after executing
test(5),
but I haven't. 

Any comments????

daniel



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