From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Mar 11 12:58:06 2002
Subject: Re: sprintf to make filenames
From: Douglas Eck <doug at idsia dot ch>
To: websterj at acm dot org
CC: Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa dot epi dot umn dot edu>,    Help-Octave List <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:52:25 +0100

You can also use the functional version of save:

a=rand(1,5);
fname="foo.mat"
save("-ascii",fname,"a");

saves the variable "a" to the file "foo.mat" as ascii.

Cheers,
Doug

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Jonathan C. Webster wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello all--
>>
>>I want to be able to use the usual save command of this form:
>>
>>save -ascii file_0001.dat matrixdata
>>
>>but I'd like for the filename to be determined by a variable in this sort
>>of way:
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 



> That does work.  Here is an example:  "runNo" and "data_to_save"  are
> defined  by your code.
> 
> 
> 
> fnam_t= sprintf("%s.type",runNo);
> 
> str = sprintf("save %s  data_to_save",fnam_t);
> 
> eval(str);
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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