Hi Dave,

You could make a UDO that does something like:

foo itable 1, 3, 6

(though probably better to use an opcode name that doesn't start with
i).  The 3 and 6 could be a start/end index.

Not quite the same syntax, but technically equivalent.

steven



On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:48 AM, David Akbari <dakbari@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I'm wondering how one might go about using features similar to GNU
> Octave (or MATLAB) in Csound such as table indexing using the colon
> notation... For example,
>
> If we had the table
> itable ftgen 1, 0, 8, 2, 10, 13, 11, 14, 12, 16, 20, 9
>
> How could we index a _range_ of values? Is the only current way to use
> Istvan's *_loop opcodes?
>
> Ideally, it would be nice in the above example to say something like
>
> foo = itable(1,3:6)
>
> where foo would in this case store values 3 through 6 in row 1 as a
> new table. Is there a way to encapsulate this type of syntax into a
> UDO?
>
>
>
> Thank you for your time and consideration,
>
> David Akbari
>
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