Re: Returning system command output to a string variable

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 07 March 2005 02:45 pm, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Juergen Wieferink wrote (apropos RFE 1108413):
> 
> > The proper syntax would be a string function
> > "command('blabla1')" returning the standard output as a
> > string (as suggested by Petr in October 2004). I still think
> > this would be a useful feature.
> 
> 
> What I *can* see how to do easily is to distinguish between
> single back-quotes and double back-quotes.

And then there is the very unix-style solution:
Create an external script named "quote"
#!/bin/csh
echo '"'
$*
echo '"'


and then issue the command as
gnuplot>  numvar = `mycommand $1 $2 $3`
gnuplot>  stringvar = `quote mycommand $1 $2 $3`



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