From help-request at octave dot org Mon Dec 27 23:56:50 2004
Subject: Re: Using automatic form of...gset xrange [-10:10]
From: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
To: "Robert A. .Macy" <macy at california dot com>
CC: Octave Help <help at octave dot org>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:56:37 -0700

Robert A. .Macy wrote:
....

>If I set,
> 
> var1=max(variable);var2=min(variable);
> 
> then use...
> 
> gset yrange [var2:var1];
> 
> the plot doesn't accept the values.  
> 

You can do:
octave> cmdstr = sprintf("gset yrange [%f:%f]\n", var2, var1)
octave> eval(cmdstr)

Regards,

Dmitri.
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