From help-request at octave dot org Wed Jan  4 09:10:00 2006
Subject: Re: Save with variable argument
From: Quentin Spencer <qspencer at ieee dot org>
To: Reiner Suikat <Reiner at pipeloops dot com>
CC: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 09:04:45 -0600

Reiner Suikat wrote:

>Hi,
>
>This may be a stupid question.
>
>I want the following to work:
>Fname = test.mat
>save -binary Fname a b c ...
>
>It appears that whatever I give as an argument to save is taken literally,
>it simply does not substitute the filename.
>I tried 
>save -binray (fname) ...
>
>Well, it saved to (fname).
>
>What's the trick?
>  
>

There are two ways to do this that I can think of:

1) eval(sprintf('save -binary %s a b c',fname));

2) save('-binary',fname,'a','b','c');

The second one is probably better, because the eval function is slow and 
should be avoided if there's another way of doing things.



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