Re: send octave output to string

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Bill Denney wrote:

> charles reid wrote:
> > Hi there -
> >
> > I've been searching Octave documentation & the web with no luck on
> > this, so I thought I would ask here.  If I want to send the output of
> > an Octave command to a string, how would I do that?  For example,  
> > if I
> > type
> >
> > > > a = 2 + 2
> >
> > And I want a string to contain the resulting " a = 4 ", how would I  
> > do
> > that?  Thanks!
>
> You're looking for num2str or sprintf:
>
> num2str(a)
>
> or
>
> spritnf("%d", a)
>
> Have a good day,
>
> Bill

If you want the "a =" part as well.

str = sprintf ("a = %d", a);

Or do you want to capture the output to the console for a specific  
command?

I dont' know how to do that, anyone else?

Ben