For Loop read different data from workspace

Hey, so I am kind of new to matlab and got the following problem. I tried my best to find a solution at the internet but I guess I wasn't really able to adapt it to my problem.

I want to save different data in an array or cellarray like:

t{1} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_1.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
t{2} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_2.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
t{3} = ...

but with a for loop. The data in

ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_1.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text

is a datapath in my workspace, that leads to a string. I already tried different stuff like strcat(), but it didn't work.

Thanks in advance

Edit:

I want it to look like this:

for i=1:1:10
  t{i} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_i.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
  end;

But of course this would not work.

Answer 1

[Brett Bodamer]

for i=1:length(t)
...
end

This should work. Put your assignment instruction inside of the for loop with i being your current index into the cell array.

[Alexander Epp]

t{1} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_1.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
t{2} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_2.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);

Problem is i can't use the index i into the variable

for i=1:1:10
  t{i} = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.MyCellElement1_i.Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
  end;

This would not work. My question is how to use an index in a variable into function str2double. Sorry if my question wasn't clear enough.

[Brett Bodamer]

Okay I see. I'm not sure how that long input is interpreted. But if it is a string, try concatenating the value of i into the string. It would look like this.

tempVar = ['1', num2str(2), '3'];

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Do NOT use ans as a variable name. I use S in my code below:

out = cell(1,10);
for k = 1:10
    fld = sprintf('MyCellElement1_i.Soc',k);
    str = S.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.(fld).InitialCapacity.Text;
    out{k} = str2double(str);
end

Answer 3

[Alexander Epp]

That did the job

IniCap=zeros(40,1);
 for cell_counter=1:40
    IniCap(cell_counter) = str2double(ans.Configuration.CustomDefinitions.(['MyCellElement1_' num2str(cell_counter)]).Soc.InitialCapacity.Text);
 end

Thanks