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Re: turn a string value into variable name [message #94471 is a reply to message #63122]

Thu, 01 June 2017 15:48

laura.hike
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So now I want to do this in order to use a loop to add lines to a plot and then make a legend. I need the plot names to all be different so I can use them in the "target" argument, but I can otherwise make the plot commands identical, e.g.,

p1 = plot(xbin, pdf, color = linecolors[nsea], thick = 2, name = seanames[nsea], /overplot)

Based on David's comment, I tried

execute('p5 = plot(xbin, pdf, color = linecolors[nsea-1], thick = 2, name = seanames[nsea-1], /overplot)')

but this didn't do anything except return a "1". I'm really not excited about putting in a plot command (with an 'if' statement' for each of the lines I want to overplot.

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		turn a string value into variable name By: Nick[2] on Thu, 23 October 2008 15:30
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 October 2008 08:09
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: loebasboy on Wed, 29 October 2008 08:29
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: laura.hike on Thu, 01 June 2017 15:48
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: Markus Schmassmann on Fri, 02 June 2017 02:59
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: loebasboy on Wed, 29 October 2008 07:55
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: David Fanning on Wed, 29 October 2008 06:34
		Re: turn a string value into variable name By: Vince Hradil on Wed, 29 October 2008 08:30

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