Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-992149 ] String variables revisited

[Dave D. <dde...@es...>]

Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> writes:

> On Sunday 18 July 2004 07:03 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>> > 3) user-defined string-valued functions.
>>
>> Users will almost certainly want to be able to do something like this:
>>
>> 	filename(i)=sprintf("foobar%d.ps", i)
>>
>> 	i=15
>>
> But that example does not require a user-defined function.
> That is the behaviour you would get anyway, courtesy of
> the automagic string evaluation code already written.
>
> filename = 'sprintf("foobar%d.ps",i)'


Sorry, I'm keeping up with this topic...

This may be a stupid question, but does this syntax extend to
arbitrary expressions, or just variable names ?

  filename = 'sprintf("foobar%d.ps", i+1)'

or

  maptofilename(i)=i+1
  filename = 'sprintf("foobar%d.ps", maptofilename(i))'

dd
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