extracting value from a vector

[James Sherman Jr.]

Yes.  I may miss the subtleties, but the only way I've seen the assignment

[a,b,c] = <something>

work is when <something> is a function and that it returns 3 different
variables.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alain Baeckeroot <
alain.baeckeroot at laposte.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> A trivial question, but i don't find the answer in the doc.
> i would like to assign value of a vector individually to some variables.
>  octave> v = [ 1.4 , 2.7, 3.1 ]
>
> This fails : octave> [ a, b, c ] = v;
> everything goes in 'a', and b is undefined.
>
> Is it necessary to write a = v(1); b = v(2) ...
> or did i missed something ?
>
> Alain
>
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