How can I define a variable with a name based on an input?

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Nicole
Nicole am 13 Aug. 2018
Kommentiert: Paolo am 14 Aug. 2018
I want my script to create new variables whose names depend on an input, e.g.:
ship_name = input('Name of the ship: ','s');
[the string, ship_name, here]_name = ship_name %#ok<NOPTS>
I know I want the latter half of this second variable to be '_name', but how do I get the former half to be identical to the string input by the user, so this happens in the command window:
Name of the ship: Orange
Orange_name =
"Orange"
Over time, many different ships exist, such that there may be an Orange_name, a Green_name, and a Blue_name. My script will later know which ship it's working with:
ship_current = input('Which ship are you working with? ');
And I want it to return the string called Orange_name when ship_current = "Orange", the string called Green when ship_current = "Green", and so forth. This may seem useless, but there will also be ship_mass and ship_capacity variables, so the script will basically remember the details of each ship until they're needed later. I also think I can achieve the same thing by concatenating onto a cell containing this information, but I had this variable name idea and wanted to know if it was feasible to do this, regardless of how unnecessarily difficult it may be.
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Nicole
Nicole am 14 Aug. 2018
This is all true. Last night I finished the script I was working on, in the end using a 5-D cell array to store the ship data. Each ship has stages, each stage has engines, and each engine has characteristics, all of which must be input by the user, so this was both the simplest and the most robust way I could think to achieve this. Thanks for the info!
Paolo
Paolo am 14 Aug. 2018
Very good advice Stephen. Sometimes I just focus on answering the question without seeing the bigger picture, I guess that comes with experience :)

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Paolo
Paolo am 13 Aug. 2018
If I am understanding your question correctly, you can use:
ship_name = input('Name of the ship: ','s');
assignin('base',strcat(ship_name,'_name'),ship_name);
Will create a variable named such as Orange_name with value Orange.
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Paolo
Paolo am 13 Aug. 2018
Bearbeitet: Paolo am 13 Aug. 2018
You are welcome, happy to help.
The usage of the base or caller options depends as to whether you are calling the assignin function from a script or a function (if called by another function).
For a script, use base.
For a function ( let's call it callee ), you use caller to assign the variable to the workspace of the function that called callee.

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