<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Data Structure Objects (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Data Structure Objects (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Data Structure Objects (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Built_002din-Data-Types.html#Built_002din-Data-Types" rel="up" title="Built-in Data Types"> <link href="Cell-Array-Objects.html#Cell-Array-Objects" rel="next" title="Cell Array Objects"> <link href="String-Objects.html#String-Objects" rel="prev" title="String Objects"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Data-Structure-Objects"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Cell-Array-Objects.html#Cell-Array-Objects" accesskey="n" rel="next">Cell Array Objects</a>, Previous: <a href="String-Objects.html#String-Objects" accesskey="p" rel="prev">String Objects</a>, Up: <a href="Built_002din-Data-Types.html#Built_002din-Data-Types" accesskey="u" rel="up">Built-in Data Types</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Data-Structure-Objects-1"></a> <h4 class="subsection">3.1.4 Data Structure Objects</h4> <a name="index-structures"></a> <a name="index-data-structures"></a> <p>Octave’s data structure type can help you to organize related objects of different types. The current implementation uses an associative array with indices limited to strings, but the syntax is more like C-style structures. </p> <p>See <a href="Structures.html#Structures">Structures</a>, for more information. </p> </body> </html>