Merge pull request #948 from martok/variable-string

Variable style 'string' substitutes variables in definition
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Steve Plimpton
2018-06-18 10:50:36 -06:00
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3 changed files with 18 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -296,10 +296,11 @@ list of runs (e.g. 1000) without having to list N strings in the input
script.
For the {string} style, a single string is assigned to the variable.
The only difference between this and using the {index} style with a
single string is that a variable with {string} style can be redefined.
E.g. by another command later in the input script, or if the script is
read again in a loop.
Two differences between this this and using the {index} style exist:
a variable with {string} style can be redefined, e.g. by another command later
in the input script, or if the script is read again in a loop. The other
difference is that {string} performs variable substitution even if the
string parameter is quoted.
For the {format} style, an equal-style variable is specified along
with a C-style format string, e.g. "%f" or "%.10g", which must be