From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 30 10:34:47 2002
Subject: Re: plot to file from executable script -problem refined
From: Rafael Laboissiere <laboissiere at mpipf-muenchen dot mpg dot de>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:34:25 -0600


* Pieter Thysebaert <pieter dot thysebaert at intec dot rug dot ac dot be> [2002-01-30 10:32]:

> I did not add gset output "output.eps" as a command, but rather
> 
> filename="output.eps";
> gset output filename
> 
> [...]
>
> However, gnuplot seems to choke on it:
> It says "filename expected", so I suppose octave is passing the variable name
> rather than the contents of it (=the filename).

It is not gnuplot that is choking on it, it is the Octave parser itself.

> Can I plot to a file if its name is to be determined at run-time ?

Sure you can.  Try:

    eval(sprintf("gset output \"%s\", filename))

-- 
Rafael



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