using variable arguments with "load"

[Tom Short]

Is there any way to pass arguments to the builtin "load" command such as:

octave:1> a = "test.dat";
octave:2> load a

This statement tries to load a file called "a". Is there a way to get octave
to load the file which has its name stored in the variable ("test.dat")? 

- Tom
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