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loading a filename beginning with a digit
From: |
Mike Miller |
Subject: |
loading a filename beginning with a digit |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:25:55 -0500 (CDT) |
Suppose, for example, that I have a file named 2x.txt with these contents:
1 3
9 5
(Just two lines with two integers per line, but in real life I'll want to
do this with larger files!) When I load the file, I am not able to access
the data. (Please don't tell me to rename the file! I just want to make
the load function work within a script I'm writing no matter what the
filename, if that's possible.) I did this in a couple of versions of
Octave on Solaris 8:
octave:1> load 2x.txt
octave:2> whos
*** local user variables:
prot type rows cols name
==== ==== ==== ==== ====
wd matrix 2 2 2x
octave:3> 2x
parse error:
>>> 2x
^
octave:3> "2x"
ans = 2x
octave:4> eval("2x")
parse error:
>>> 2x
^
error: evaluating index expression near line 4, column 1
So, Octave seems to load the 2x2 matrix, but I just can't figure out how
to get at it. (I thought Octave didn't allow variables beginning with a
digit.) I'd really like to be able to rename the loaded matrix, but how?
Thanks in advance for any tips!
Mike
--
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/
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