I want to repeat a section several times taking different values

A section of my program is as follows:

 Dat=[Data(:,1) Data(:,2)];
 nbins=[100 100];
 figure

 hist3(Dat,nbins,'FaceAlpha',.85);%create 3D histogram plot
 set(gcf,'renderer','opengl');

 xlabel('X','color','w'); ylabel('Y','color','w');
 title('3D histogram X Y','fontweight','bold');

 surfHandle = get(gca, 'child');

 set(surfHandle,'FaceColor','interp', 'CdataMode', 'auto');
 caxis([0 100]);

 n=hist3(Dat,nbins);
 n1 = n';
 n1(size(n,1) + 1, size(n,2) + 1) = 0;
 xb = linspace(min(Dat(:,1)),max(Dat(:,1)),size(n,1)+1);
 yb = linspace(min(Dat(:,2)),max(Dat(:,2)),size(n,1)+1);

 figure

 h = pcolor(xb,yb,n1);
 caxis([0 20]);

 xlabel('X');ylabel('Y');
 title('2D histogram X Y','fontweight','bold');

I want to repeat this section several times (say n times). For example. For 'Data' in the program, I have several data 'TimePeriod1' 'TimePeriod2' 'TimePeriod3'....... 'TimePeriodn'. Means, in one run Data= TimePeriod1, the second run Data= TimePeriod2, so n so... For each run, it should output the figures separately. How can I repeat this section several times each time taking Data as TimePeriod1, TimePeriod2 etc..?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I suggest putting it in a function m-file, pass the appropriate arguments to it, and return the appropriate output. Then, you simply call it as a function in a for loop, passing it ‘TimePeriod1’ etc. as arguments. If you want to save the figures the function creates, consider saving them with savefig.

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

For the time1 time2 timen part

For interactive iteration of code sections:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2014a/matlab/matlab_prog/run-sections-of-programs.html