Re: calling c++ or c from octave?

[Jonathan Stickel]

On 11/5/08 address@hidden wrote:
> > From: Carlo de Falco <address@hidden>
> > > Subject: Re: calling c++ or c from octave?
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Cc: address@hidden, "Francis Poulin" <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 6:39 AM
> > > On 04/nov/08, at 19:57, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > You may start from here:
> > > http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTutorial .
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am using a different approach - I am writing data in
> > > binary format from
> > > > > "C" using "fwrite" and load the
> > > data into 'octave' using 'fopen',
> > > 'fread'
> > > > > in 'octave'. Works like a charm.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >  Sergei.
> > > 
> > > if you only need to exchange data then "popen"
> > > and
> > > "fread" are probably an even better option
> > > c.
>
> Well, in my case 'octave' does not call the "C" program and vice versa.
> So, the "C" program dumps data into files and when I need to analyze them
> by 'octave' I invoke it.

If all that is needed is to manage workflow, then perhaps the "system" 
function in octave would be helpful.  For example, you can do something 
like:

octave> system("script_to_run_C_program")
octave> read_in_C_data
octave> [plotting commands]


Jonathan