From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu May  1 01:04:23 2003
Subject: Re: Calling other functions from .oct files
From: Heber Farnsworth <farnsworth at olin dot wustl dot edu>
To: Peter Williams <pjw233 at cims dot nyu dot edu>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 01:03:57 -0500

Here is a code snipet that works (or did back when I wrote it)

   ColumnVector NumRands(2);
   NumRands(0) = 9000;
   NumRands(1) = 1;
   octave_value_list x;
   x(0) = octave_value(NumRands);
   string ranfunc = "rand"
   unis = feval(ranfunc,x,1);

Heber

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 10:32 PM, Peter Williams wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 	I'm starting to do some work with .oct files and I need a little
> guidance.  The classes and structures document is very useful, but
> what I want to do is call functions that I would normally use in a .m
> from my C++ code.  I'm not really sure how to go about this, or where
> to look in the source for examples.
> 	If someone could point me in the right direction or give me a brief
> example of how you would call "randn" from C++ source.  I know I can
> use numerical recipies inside my own code to accomplish this, but I'm
> curious how/if I can access the rand.cc source from my code.  Looked
> through Da Coda, but I didn't see anything like this.
>
> Thanks,
> Pete Williams
>
>
>
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