Setting name of variable equal to name of imported file

Hi,

I'm importing data into Matlab from excel via the following command:

cycle=xlsread('E:\DC.xlsx','Sheet1');

How can I set the name of the metadata to be the same as the name of the imported excel file.For example:

sch_metadata.name = 'DC';

It will be looping through files in a folder so I wont know the name in advance

Many thanks

Answer 1

[Robert Cumming]

if you must do it then use dynamic fieldnames

   metadata.(sch_metadata.name) = cycle

[John]

Thanks for the reply,

Maybe I didn't describe it very well, I want to save it with the same as the imported excel file, not as the variable cycle.

Would you suggest the same in this case?

Many thanks

Full code:

sch_cycle=xlsread('E:\DC.xlsx','Sheet1');

nrows = size(cycle,1);

sch_grade=[0,0;nrows,0];

sch_key_on=[0 1; nrows 1];

sch_metadata.net = 'DC';

sch_metadata.proprietary='public';

save DC.mat

[Robert Cumming]

same theory. TO get the filename use:

[fullpath, filename, ext] = fileparts ( 'E:\DC.xlsx' );

Then: sch_metadata.net = filename;

[John]

Thanks very much

Answer 2

[Matt Tearle]

If you're going to be looping on the files, you're probably doing something like

x = cellstr(ls('*.xlsx'));
for k = 1:length(x)
  % do stuff
end

In the "do stuff" bit, you should use fileparts to pull apart each filename string:

[~,fn] = fileparts(x{k});
sch_metadata.net = fn;
save(fn);
% or save([fn,'.mat']) if you want to be explicit

[John]

Thanks very much