Re: load command question

[Bill Denney]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> x = "1"
> filename = "myfile"
> exec(["load(", filename, x, ".dat)"])
>
> which will execute
>
> load(myfile1.dat)

I think you were meaning eval instead of exec, and you can't contatenate 
strings and numbers like that-- you need something like num2str.  Also, a 
simpler, safer, and probably faster way to do this would be to do this:

filename = sprintf("myfile%d.dat", x);
load(filename);

It's simpler because you don't have as much indirection.  It's safer 
because you don't have to worry (or at least worry as much) about what 
characters are in the filename (what if you accidentally put a | in 
there).  I think it's faster because I think that eval is a relatively 
slow call.

Bill

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