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Let's assume that I want to create 10 variables which would look like this:
x1 = 1;
x2 = 2;
x3 = 3;
x4 = 4;
.
.
xi = i;
This is a simplified version of what I'm intending to do. Basically I just want so save code lines by creating these variables in an automated way. Is there the possibility to construct a variable name in Matlab? The pattern in my example would be ["x", num2str(i)]. But I cant find a way to create a variable with that name.
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String Into Variable Name in Python Using the vars() Function. Instead of using the locals() and the globals() function to convert a string to a variable name in python, we can also use the vars() function. The vars() function, when executed in the global scope, behaves just like the globals() function.
varname = genvarname(str) constructs a string or character vector varname that is similar to or the same as the str input, and can be used as a valid variable name. str can be a string, a string array, a character array, a cell array of character vectors.
A string variable is a variable that holds a character string. It is a section of memory that has been given a name by the programmer. The name looks like those variable names you have seen so far, except that the name of a string variable ends with a dollar sign, $. The $ is part of the name.
You can do it with eval but you really should not
eval(['x', num2str(i), ' = ', num2str(i)]); %//Not recommended
Rather use a cell array:
x{i} = i
I also strongly advise using a cell array or a struct for such cases. I think it will even give you some performance boost.
If you really need to do so Dan told how to. But I would also like to point to the genvarname function. It will make sure your string is a valid variable name.
EDIT: genvarname is part of core matlab and not of the statistics toolbox
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