From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 11 07:31:01 2005
Subject: Re: how to access structure elements by a key
From: Miroslaw Kwasniak <mirek at zind dot ikem dot pwr dot wroc dot pl>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:36:12 +0100

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:23:33PM +0100, Rafal Mantiuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I access an element of the structure by its key if the key is 
> given as a string. That is, having a structure:
> 
> a.a = 1;
> 
> I would like to get "1", by:
> 
> a("a")
> 
> or something similar. Actually a("a") causes an error and then assertion 
> fault and octave crash on 2.1.57:

>a.("a")
ans = 1 

;)



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