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Re: Creating "sequential variable names"
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Creating "sequential variable names" |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:48:33 -0400 |
On 18-Oct-2010, AlbFrigerio wrote:
|
| Dear Søren, I'll try in my awful English to explain why I decided to use
| sequential names.
|
| I got ten variables, I want to call AG1, ... , AG10.
| Every AG const of several elements : P,A,M,alpha, beta, gamma.
| Some of the previous elements const again of other elements : n, err,
| fitness, etc
|
| As you suggested I tried to use struct : AG1 is a struct whose elements are
| P,M, etc. P is again a struct whose elements are n, err, etc. I believe
| there is a better way to implement it, but in this environment I don't want
| to type AG1.P.n = 1 ; AG2.P.n = 1, ... AG10.P.n =1 , AG1.M.err = 0, ...
| AG10.M.err = 0 , it is faster (and easier reading) what you suggested :
|
| for i = 1 : 10
| eval(sprintf("AG%d.P.n=1;AG%d.M.err=0",i,i));
| endfor
I think it is even clearer if you write
for i = 1:10
AG(i).P.n = 1;
AG(i).M.err = 0;
endfor
to create a struct array.
If you find yourself using eval for what seem should be normal
programming tasks, then you should immediately think there must be a
better way, and nearly always there is.
| I hope you understood what is my need, as I told you I believe there is a
| nicer way to solve it, but I'm only a rookie in Octave :)
|
| By the way, I got another question to you. Sometimes in the sprintf command
| I may use a reference to a function. Everything works fine, but if a put a
| keyboard command in the function (to start debug mode) my Octave crashes :
| it doesn't let me use the command line and after ctrl+C it crashes . Have
| you got any idea?
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jwe
- Creating "sequential variable names", AlbFrigerio, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Andy Buckle, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Søren Hauberg, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", AlbFrigerio, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Ben Abbott, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Søren Hauberg, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", AlbFrigerio, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names",
John W. Eaton <=
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Sergei Steshenko, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", John W. Eaton, 2010/10/18
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", AlbFrigerio, 2010/10/19
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", John W. Eaton, 2010/10/19
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", AlbFrigerio, 2010/10/19
- Re: Creating "sequential variable names", Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/10/19