Re: How Do I Create a Map With Indexed Values in an Oct File

[David Grundberg]

Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> I want to create a map in an oct file like the octave code:
> x.a=1;
> x.b=2;
> a.h{1}=x;
> x.a=11;
> x.b=12;
> a.h{2}=x;
> a.idx=2;
>
> in f.cc, I can do
>    Octave_map s, t;
>    s.assign("a",1);
>    s.assign("b",2);
>    t.assign("h",x); ## this is not what I want
>    s.assign("a",11);
>    s.assign("b",12);
>    t.assign("j",x); ## this is not what I want
> After mkoctfile, in octave, I want to do
>   a=f();
> and get the same results as the octave code.  I can extract values with
>   for i=1:a.idx
>     a.h{i}
>   endfor
>
> How do I do this?
>
> tomdean


Create a 2-element cell array (Cell), add the s's to it, and use 
t.assign("h", the-cell-array);

hth,
David