Re: flexible filenames?

On 2008-06-06, merritt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> Yes, certainly.  Here is a simple example that show 2 possible
> command variants for defining the file names.
>
>   N = 1
>   outfile = "graph_dim".N.".eps"
>   infile  = sprintf("data_dim%02d.eps",N)
>
>   set output outfile
>   plot infile ....

Thanks for this interesting suggestion.  I do however also sometimes use
the ! symbol to escape to my shell.  And in the commands after
the ! symbol i would also like to use the above principle of
dynamically building up my filenames.

Consider the following example:


s=8

! echo s
! echo $s
! echo sprintf("%02d", s)

None of the above three echo commands shows the value for s.  How would
i do that?

Thanks,
Bart

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