Re: sprintf to make filenames

[Jonathan C. Webster]

Mike Miller wrote:

> Hello all--
>
> I want to be able to use the usual save command of this form:
>
> save -ascii file_0001.dat matrixdata
>
> but I'd like for the filename to be determined by a variable in this sort
> of way:
>
>
>

That does work.  Here is an example:  "runNo" and "data_to_save"  are
defined  by your code.



fnam_t= sprintf("%s.type",runNo);

str = sprintf("save %s  data_to_save",fnam_t);

eval(str);

Hope that helps.

Jonathan



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