Assigning input string as variable name
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David Polcari
am 4 Jul. 2012
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am 25 Jun. 2019
Hi everyone, I have a quick question. I would like to ask the user to input the name of a variable and then use that string as a new variable name. For example, say I have the value [0 1 2 3 4]. I want to ask the user to give the name he would like to that variable.
So, for example:
x = input('Enter the name of the new variable: ') Say the user enters: new_var
I want:
new_var = [0 1 2 3 4]
Can someone explain how to do this?
Thanks for the help
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Jan
am 4 Jul. 2012
This method will be insecure: Imagine the users selects a name, which is already used in your program. Then there is no way to avoid a crash reliably.
Another problem will be evil users, who type:
"system('format C:); y"
Then eval will assign y after it has crashed your computer. I admit, this will not be the standard case. But there are a lot of possible problems, which are less brute.
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Jan
am 5 Jul. 2012
@David: Users will create typos, whenever it is possible.
When you will get problems with EVAL-approachs in the future, remember this thread and read the questions of hundrets of other forum users, who suffered from the disgraces of EVAL also. The user-controlled naming of variables is a bad programming practize.
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Andrei Bobrov
am 4 Jul. 2012
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am 4 Jul. 2012
x = input('Enter the name of the new variable: ','s');
eval([x,'=0:4;']);
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Arash Roozitalab
am 18 Apr. 2018
Hello. One might use
assignin('base',var_name, value)
to assign a
value
to a string
var_name = "given_name"
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Stephen23
am 18 Apr. 2018
Bearbeitet: Stephen23
am 18 Apr. 2018
Note that assignin suffers from all of the same problems as eval does: slow, complex, obfuscated code, buggy, and hard to debug. This does not depend on which command is used, but these problems are caused by the act of magically assigning values to variable names dynamically. See:
Beginners wanting to learn how to write neat, efficient MATLAB code that is easy to debug should focus on keeping their data in as few arrays as possible, and use indexing to access it. As has already been discussed many times on this forum, they should avoid using eval, assignin, etc.
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