Re: Getting the name of a variable

[Paul Kienzle]

This is wrapped in the function inputname(i) in octave-forge (for 
compatibility)

- Paul

On Sep 7, 2004, at 8:09 AM, Etienne Grossmann wrote:

>    function s = tar(varargin)
>
>    ...
>
>    s.(deblank(argn(i,:))) = varargin{i};
>
> deblank(argn(i,:)) is a string containing the name of the i'th
> argument.
>
> # Is there a way to implement GETNAME(), which takes a parameter or 
> variable
> # and returns it's name? Any ideas how this could be done?



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