Re: giving arguments when calling an octave script

[David Bateman]

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> Hi,
> how to send arguments to the script scriptname.oct like:
>
> shell#  octave scriptname.oct ARG1, ARG2 ...
>
> Thanks in advance and for all help up to now ...
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Note you are confusing a script (executed in the current workspace and
so has access to the variable in the current workspace), and a function
(creates its own workspace and so the variables in the current workspace
are out of scope).

The do what you want in octave 2.9.x do

octave --eval scriptname(ARG1, ARG2)

Doing it in 2.1.x requires some modification of the function, which I
believe is only possible for a script file (not a function). Add the
following code the the m-file script

if length(argv)
ARG1= argv{1};
ARG2= argv{2};
endif

and then run the script from the command line like

octave scriptname.m 'arg1' 'arg2'

D.

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