How can we get user inputs from the keyboard in GNU Octave?

Question

Is there a command like 'scanf' in GNU Octave to read the user inputs from the keyboard?

Answer 1

Yes, the function is called input. A simple example:

octave-3.2.4:3> x = input("Enter a number: ")
Enter a number: 25
x =  25

See the documentation for details, like overriding the default parsing behavior.