El 14/07/11 08:52, Pietro Battiston escribió: > > I'm trying to have a rapid way to output numbers to files, and wrote the > following: > > # A function to dump numbers to files: > function scalar to_file(scalar numb, string format, string filename) > set echo off > set messages off > outfile filename --write > printf format, numb > outfile --close > set echo on > set messages on > return 0 > end function > > which however doesn't work. By trying different specifications, I think > I have understood that the "filename" parameter of "outfile" and the > "format" parameter of "printf" cannot be variables, they are parsed > directly as strings by the interpreter. > > Did I understand correctly? > Is there anything I can do to solve my problem? > > I do not care too much, in the end, about "format", but if there is no > way to pass an arbitraray string to "outfile" I'm clearly trying > something stupid. I think that only adding "@" to the filename of the 'outfile' command as in: outfile @filename --write your function should work. (not tested)