From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Dec  2 07:31:03 1995
Subject: Re: This cant be right! Was String Manipulations
From: Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk (Ted Harding)
To: spaz at u dot washington dot edu (John Utz)
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 12:41:58 +0000 (GMT)

( Re Message From: John Utz )
> HI again this is just too weird
> 
> function fig ( functionname)
> 
> % create the name of the file.
> prestring = strcat ( functionname, ".fig" )
> prefilenamestr = strcat ( """", prestring )
> filenamestr = strcat ( prefilenamestr, """" ) 
> 
> OUTPUT: is this how this is supposed to work?
> 
> octave:16> fig ("foo")
> prestring = foo.fig
> prefilenamestr = "foo.fig
> filenamestr = "foo.fig"
> octave:17>  

Am I misunderstanding, or would

name = strcat("\"foo",".fig\"")

do what you want?

Cheers,
Ted.                                    (Ted dot Harding at nessie dot mcc dot ac dot uk)