argv

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Sep-2007, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:

| Hi, ok, here is a very stupid question but this is getting in my way of
| doing stuff for my thesis.
| 
| How do I access argv elements in version 2.9??
| 
| before it was argv{2} to access the second element but that doesnt work any
| more
| 
| argv(2) doesnt work either
| argv(2,:) doesnt work
| 
| I have run out of ideas :(

There are no built-in variables in Octave now, so argv is a function
that returns a cell array of the arguments:

  args = argv ();
  args{2}

jwe