RE: Using a string variable as a filename #2

[William Krekeler]

Al,

Glad I could help.

To do what you want to do you must use the command call version with 
parenthesis. They are handled the same way as I believe that print will also 
fail if you try to do the same thing, ie call a quantity as a string variable 
without using the parenthesis version. I am not sure why some of the older 
functions use a different structure in the help interface that implies 
parenthesis should not be used. FYI, both octave and matlab have this problem 
and it is confusing to those that do not know. Try:

A = 1:10;
filename3 = 'some_text';
save( filename3, '-ascii', A);

William Krekeler