Re: input string use in a for-statement

[Carnë Draug]

On 20 August 2012 15:48, Nikolai <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have this piece of code:
>
> Var1 = xxx;
> Var2 = xxx;
> ...
> ...
> EingParameter = input ("Veränderbaren Parameter: ","s")
> EingPStart = input ("Parameter Startwert eingeben ")
> EingPEnd = input ("Parameter Endwert eingeben ")
> EingPSteps = input ("Paramter Anzahl eingeben ")
>
> for EingParameter = linspace(EingPStart,EingPEnd,EingPSteps)
>
> What I want is, for the user to enter the name of a variable  in the first
> input prompt so that the for-expression uses that corresponding variable. I
> know that this code won't work the way i want it to, but ideally it would
> look like this.
>
> Does anyone know what I would have to do, to get this working the way I want
> to?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!

I don't understand. It works for me:

octave:8> var1 = 45;
octave:9> var2 = 78;
octave:10> var3 = 99;
octave:11> EingPStart = input ("Parameter Startwert eingeben ")
Parameter Startwert eingeben var3
EingPStart =  99

Carnë