From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Apr 10 08:25:39 2002
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
From: Andreas Helms <helms at astro dot physik dot uni-potsdam dot de>
To: Eoin Phillips <eoinphillips at yahoo dot com>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:25:32 +0200


You can do it the following way:

focal_length = 100.0;
stmt = sprintf ("gset title \'Cavity coupling (focal length = %f)\' ",...     
                          focal_length)
eval(stmt)



On Wednesday 10 April 2002 15:14, Eoin Phillips wrote:
> I was wondering if it's possible to include variables in gset commands?
>  Ideally I'd like to have something like:
> gset title "Cavity coupling (focal length = %f)"
>
> where f is an Octave variable.  A similar command gives the following
> error:
> octave:26> gset title wbeam;
> octave:27>          line 0: undefined variable: wbeam
>
> octave:28> wbeam
> wbeam = 0.0020000
>
> So wbeam is definitely defined as a real scalar, but telling gnuplot to
> use it seems to be the problem.  Any ideas?
>
> Eoin
>
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