From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Dec  8 21:30:30 1999
Subject: "save" and "load" commands
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Michelle L Povinelli <mpovinel at MIT dot EDU>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 21:30:59 -0600 (CST)

On  8-Dec-1999, Michelle L Povinelli <mpovinel at MIT dot EDU> wrote:

| I would like to successively load data from, for example,
| files named "myfile1," "myfile2," "myfile3,"... etc.
| If I create a string variable holding the file name,
| and try to load it with
| 
| for ii=1:200
| filename=["myfile" num2str(ii)]
| load filename
| end
| 
| octave tries to load from the file "filename," not "file1," etc.
| How do I force evaluation of the string variable in the load (or save)
| commands?

Write either

  load (filename);

or

  eval (sprintf ("load %s", filename));

jwe



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