From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Jan 18 23:47:10 1999
Subject: loading .mat files
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Cyril Fischer <fischerc at itam dot cas dot cz>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:47:19 -0600 (CST)

On 18-Jan-1999, Cyril Fischer <fischerc at itam dot cas dot cz> wrote:

| Is it possible to load a mat-file in the directory listed in LOADPATH
| without specifying the whole path and extension?
| Matlab allows construction like
| load filtd8
| instead of
| load /usr/local/share/octave/site/m/Uvi_Wave.300/wdemo/filtd8.mat

Currently, Octave's load command does not do this automatically.

You can find files in the LOADPATH using file_in_path though, so
something like

  load (file_in_path (LOADPATH, "filtd8.mat"))

should work.

In the next release, there will also be a file_in_loadpath, that will
do proper colon expansion on the LOADPATH variable.

jwe