Re: string to variable?

[Peter Cloetens]

or do you want 

eval(x)

On Sep 4, 2006, at 7:08 PM, José Luis García Pallero wrote:

thing_a = 2;
x = sprintf('%d[or %f, etc.]',thing_a);

2006/9/4, the_verge <address@hidden>:

I was wondering if there is a way to assign a value to a variable, and then
construct a string with the same characters as the variable, and then use it
to access the value of the original variable.  For Example:


thing_a = 2;

x = "thing_a";
%code here to merge the string "thing_a" with the variable thing_a
x



My hope is that running this script would return

x = 2


Is there a way to do this?

Thanks!
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