Re: Command line parameters

[Daryl Lee]

On 4/26/2011 11:36 AM, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 26. April 2011, 19:20:58 schrieb Daryl Lee:
> > I'm fairly new to Octave.  I've figured out how to pass command-line
> > arguments to a script, but only if that script is an executable script or
> > called from the system command line, a la "$ octave myscript.m arg1 arg2".
> > Is there a way to do so from the Octave console?  When I am at the Octave
> > prompt and type "myscript arg1 arg2" I get "error: invalid use of script in
> > index expression."  I'm using Octave 3.2.4 on a Windows 7 64-bit laptop.
> >
> > Here is the script that I have so far:
> > ====================
> > % Display command line
> >
> > printf('%s; %d arguments\n', program_name(), nargin);
> > arg_list = argv();
> > for i = 1:nargin
> >      printf('%d argument = %s\n', i, arg_list{i});
> > endfor
> >
> > printf('\n');
> > ====================
>
> I am really not sure if I understood what you want. But what about
> system("octave myscript.m a b")
>
> at the octave command prompt?

Well, that works, but the value of arg_list (or any other variable, I'm 
guessing) isn't available to me after the script terminates.  It seems to me 
(again, perhaps naively) that one primary reason for using the console in 
the first place is to be to be able to go in after a script runs and examine 
the values as a debugging step.

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Daryl Lee