String elements of a cell as a name to the array elements of another cell

Dear friends, can you plz. give me the solution of the problem which I stated below. I have two cell q{22,1) and each element of this cell is a string array. I have another cell r{22,1} and each element of this cell is an array. Now I want to use the element of 'q' as a name to the corresponding element of 'r' and it will be appear in matlab workspace separately. For an example, q{1,1} element will be the name of the array r{1,1} and appear in matlab workspace. Sincerely, Debjyoti

[Stephen23]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/string-evaluation.html

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What is the aim of doing this? this is not recommended, read this http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_create_variables_A1.2C_A2.2C....2CA10_in_a_loop.3F

[Debjyoti Basu]

Hi Azzi, thnx for quick reply. But where is the exact answer. Kindly tell me which part is useful to get the answer. Deb

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

The answer is to let your cell array as it is, and it's useless to crate those new variables when you have one variable q containing all your arrays. You can access to each array by

q{1}
q{2}

Then why to create new variables?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Now, if you want to know how to do it:

q={1:2 3:4}
r={'a' 'b'}
for k=1:numel(q)
  assignin('base',r{k},q{k})
end

But you have to know it's a very bad idea!

[Debjyoti Basu]

Azzi, thnx for giving me the answer. It is useful. great, Deb

Answer 2

[John BG]

Debjyoti

Use the command evalin.

evalin executes whatever you input, as long it's valid syntax.

For instance, let's say you have the following stored

    q{1,1}='var1';

do the following

1.

read the contents of the cell that has the names you want to use as names of variables, for instance:

    var_name=q{1,1}

2.

let's say that you want to create a variable with name in q{1,1} and the following value:

   value=35.6

3.

Now build the string to input evalin

string1=num2str(value);string1=[var_name '=' num2str(value)]

4.

execute evalin

evalin('base',string1)

Now in the workspace you have a new variable, named as the contents of q{1,1} with the chosen value.

Debjyoti

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[Debjyoti Basu]

John, thnx for giving me the reply. It is useful as well. Deb

[John BG]

Debjyoti

Thanks for the accepted answer.

Look for correct answers, some people in this forum try to hit many answers, attempting to maximise the chances of scoring credit, and then we come across telegraphic answers, which are essentially like if

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the reader gets

Check in the periodic table

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