Program-generated names and commands

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Program-generated names and commands

This shows how to generate variable names 'on the fly'. This is especially useful when you're running batch jobs and want to save results into several files.

% A1, A2, A3, and A4 are created and set to 3
for i=1:4
s=sprintf('A%d= 3',i);
eval(s);
end;

% This shows how to run a command that's stored in a string
str=input('Type in a command ','s') 
eval(str)

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