<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Structures - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Data-Containers.html#Data-Containers" title="Data Containers"> <link rel="next" href="Cell-Arrays.html#Cell-Arrays" title="Cell Arrays"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Structures"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Cell-Arrays.html#Cell-Arrays">Cell Arrays</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Data-Containers.html#Data-Containers">Data Containers</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">6.1 Structures</h3> <p><a name="index-structures-432"></a><a name="index-data-structures-433"></a> Octave includes support for organizing data in structures. The current implementation uses an associative array with indices limited to strings, but the syntax is more like C-style structures. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Basic-Usage-and-Examples.html#Basic-Usage-and-Examples">Basic Usage and Examples</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Structure-Arrays.html#Structure-Arrays">Structure Arrays</a> <li><a accesskey="3" href="Creating-Structures.html#Creating-Structures">Creating Structures</a> <li><a accesskey="4" href="Manipulating-Structures.html#Manipulating-Structures">Manipulating Structures</a> <li><a accesskey="5" href="Processing-Data-in-Structures.html#Processing-Data-in-Structures">Processing Data in Structures</a> </ul> </body></html>