Re: running script files

[LUK ShunTim]

Christoph Dalitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> while generally using the trick of a dummy "1;" statement in the first
> lines of my octave scripts (as recommended in the documentation), I
> wonder whether there is some Octave statement that explicitly runs
> an octave script from the octave prompt. Something like
>
>         octave> run myscript.m
> or
>         octave> run("myscript.m")
>
> This would allow to run scripts with special characters in the filename
> (like "example-1.2.m") and would make the use of scripts independant from
> octave's belief whether it is a script or a function file.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christoph

I think source("file-name") does exactly what you want.

Regards,
ST



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