changing the name of a variable

Hi,

I know that what I am asking for is not recommended but I need it. I have a loop and i want to change the name of the variable according to the loop:

for i=1:40 variable L I want it to be named L1,L2...L40 according to the i value in the loop.is it possible to do so?

Answer 1

[Vishwajith Upendra]

Here is a sample code which does what you want. Try it.

for i=1:5
    x=num2str(i);           % Converts number to string
    x1=strcat('L',x);       % Concatenates your prefix to the varying number   
    x1                      % I guess, this is the variable you want   
end

Hope it helped.

[Oleg Komarov]

I think it's more likely to be the faq 4.6 as Walter suggested, otherwise the OP should be more specific.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Please see the FAQ

Why do you "need" to do this? There is almost always a better way.

[joseph Frank]

because I am building tables from all possible regression combinations and I am naming each table differently in order to save them all

[Paulo Silva]

that's the reason for the existence of cells

[Walter Roberson]

Sounds like a reason to use dynamic field names on a structure, and to use the '-struct' option of save()