From help-request at octave dot org Fri Feb 11 12:06:52 2005
Subject: Re: Array of variable dimension
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Andrey Romanenko <andrew at eq dot uc dot pt>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:10:33 -0500

On 11-Feb-2005, Andrey Romanenko <andrew at eq dot uc dot pt> wrote:

| On Friday 11 February 2005 16:54, Deepak, R. wrote:
| > How can I create an 'y'-dimensional array of zeros, where each dimension
| > can take (2 * n + 2) values?
| >
| > 'y' and 'n' are variables given at runtime.
| 
| Like this?
| 
| 
| y=3;
| n=2;
| 
| nn=2*n+2;
| 
| ss=sprintf("zz=zeros(%d",nn);
| for i=2:y
|  ss=strcat(ss, sprintf(",%d", nn));
| endfor;
| ss=strcat(ss, ");");
| 
| eval(ss)
| 
| zz

Or perhaps something a bit simpler:

  dims = repmat (2*n+2, 1, y)
  zeros (dims)

jwe



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