inputting and array in command line format e.g. [2:2:10] etc

Hello,

I am sure that this is possible. I want to accept some values from gui which would be the labels to a bunch of files, say run_001.txt run_003.txt run_005.txt ..... I want to have a gui edit box where I can type the array of values in the straight forward way one would do this on the commend line, roughly speaking (using my own Loadfile function) with array = (1:2:101)

for i:1:length(array) Cell{1,i} = Loadfile(strcat(filename,'_', array(i)),...); end;

Is it possible to format a string in the same way in the the gui and convert it to an array from the guy?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Matt J]

Yes. Just use

   array = str2num( get(handles.EditBox,'String') );

Answer 2

[Ali]

OK, straighrforward..... Need to use eval('[1:2:101]')

EVAL(s), where s is a string, causes MATLAB to execute the string as an expression or statement.

[José-Luis]

Thou shall not use eval

Answer 3

[Ali]

Thanks for the answers and the never use eval warning, this seems to be a theme I noticed on further reading.