give the matrix a name

Hi,

I import some text files, and i extracting just the number from each text file and I want to save the matrix with the shorten name of that text file to differentiate each of them).

But i have a problem with this line : Name{1} = [dataArray{1:end-1}]; I don't know how to say "create a matrix called the name inside Name{1} and which contains dataArray{1:end-1}"

I think it is due to the size of Name(1) and the size of dataArray{1:end-1}, but i can't figure it out.

Thank you

clear all
list_files2load = dir('*.txt');
files = {list_files2load.name};
m = length(files);

for i = 1 : m
delimiter = ' ';
startRow = 9;
endRow = 198;

fileID = fopen(files{i},'r');

dataArray = textscan(fileID, formatSpec, endRow-startRow+1, 'Delimiter', delimiter, 'MultipleDelimsAsOne', true, 'HeaderLines', startRow-1, 'ReturnOnError', false);

fclose(fileID);

Name = regexprep(files{i}(1:length(files{i})-4),'[^\w'']','');
Name(1) = [dataArray{1:end-1}];

clearvars filename delimiter startRow endRow formatSpec fileID dataArray ans;

end

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Why do you want to create a name for each matrix, put them all in one cell array

Example

M{1}=[1 2;3 4]
M{2}=[5 6;7 8]

Why you have to avoid creating names? Look at

http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_create_variables_A1.2C_A2.2C....2CA10_in_a_loop.3F

[Nicolas]

thank you for you answer.

I have a lot of data and i want to differentiate each of them. So rather than having a1, a2 or a3 I'm creating a specific name for each file under Name. But I don't know how to create a matrix with the specific name that contains the dataArray. I know there is a problem between: Cell contents assignment to a non-cell array object. But i don't know how to resolve that.

Cheers,

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

You can differentiate them by their indices:

M{1} is the first one and so on, you can also associate to each matrix a name

Example

M{1,1}=[1 2;3 4]  % your matrix
M{1,2}='matrix1'
M{2,1}=[4 4;5 6]  % your matrix
M{2,2}='matrix2'

Now , If you insist you can use Eval function, which is strongly not recommended

eval('matrix1=[1 2;3 4]')

[Cedric]

It is almost never a good idea to create dynamic variable names. As Azzi is explaining, it is much better to have a cell array of matrices, that you build so a matrix corresponding to a given file name has the same index in the array of matrices as the file name in the cell array of file names.

You already have a cell array of file names, files, so the only thing that is left is to prealloc a cell array of matrices before the FOR loop, e.g.

 data = cell(size(files)) ;

and then, within the FOR loop, you store whatever you read as

 data{i} = ...

With this, data{5} for example is the matrix corresponding to files{5}.

Answer 2

[Bhavani A]

medals_2(2,:) = 9 == Rev_medals_2;

I am getting this output as error