From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 30 17:42:38 2002
Subject: Re: Strings not compatible with Matlab?
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: Julian DeMarchi <jdemarchi at nuvera dot com>
Cc: James Frye <frye at cs dot unr dot edu>, "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>,    help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:42:54 -0500

Julian DeMarchi wrote:

>There's also the poor man's (older Matlab) hack -- basically same as the above -- declaring
>
>	function assignin(ws,name,v);
>		evalin(ws, [name '=' num2str(v)]);
>
>..which works because num2str() acts more accurately as if it would be called makestr() (turns anything into type string, meaning the function does not break even when v is not numeric).
>
>As for Octave, if you hack
>
>	function evalin(ws,name,v);
>		eval([name '=' num2str(v)]);
>
>Then you're all set.  
>  
>
I believe you mean assignin here.  Regardless, it will not work.  If
it does, that means there is a bug in octave.

>(Octave/forge supports neither assignin nor evalin.)
>
octave now supports evalin (cvs version).  

>Disclaimer: Note however I am not entirely clear on how Octave variable scope is handled.  I notice that the above example works fine in octave so long as endfunction is not used to conclude function evalin(). 
>
>  
>
Paul Kienzle
pkienzle at users dot sf dot net



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