genvarname for string with structure fieldname

hi,

I have a string of a variable that includes a structure fieldname, but genvarname does interpret the point '.' wrong:

run = 1;
name = (['DATACUE', num2str(run)]); 

>> genvarname([name '.Grid_coord'])

ans =

DATACUE10x2EGrid_coord

what I want is

 DATACUE1.Grid_coord

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Many thanks! Nico

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

genvarname() is used to create a valid MATLAB variable name, not to create the variable name with a field name together. You can use genvarname() to make sure 'DATACUE1' is a valid variable name first and then assign field nane 'Grid_coord' to it. If you want to make sure there is no conflict among all the field names, you can use the fieldnames() function.