Octave basics: How to assign variables from a vector

Question

Maybe I'm spoiled by Python, but does Octave allows one to assign the values of variables directly from a vector? That is, doing something like

a,b,c=[5,6,7]

will result with a=5, b=6, c=7. I have tried many combinations of writing the expression above, but no luck yet ...

Answer 1

This can be done by constructing a cell array with "{...}" and converting this to a comma separated list via "{:}":

[a b c] = {5 6 7}{:}
a =  5
b =  6
c =  7