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<h2 class="chapter" id="Data-Containers-1"><span>6 Data Containers<a class="copiable-link" href="#Data-Containers-1"> ¶</a></span></h2>
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<p>Octave includes support for three different mechanisms to contain arbitrary
data types in the same variable: Structures, which are C-like, and are indexed
with named fields; containers.Map objects, which store data in key/value pairs;
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organized as another data container, the comma-separated list.
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