When you create variable names like this:
xCentre_1
xCentre_2
xCentre_3
then you are putting a pseudo-index into the variable name. This will be slow, buggy, hard to debug, obfuscated and ugly. Much simpler is to turn that pseudo-index into a real index, because real indices are fast, efficient, easy to read, easy to debug, and show the intent of your code.
xCentre(1) = ...
xCentre(2) = ...
xCentre(3) = ...
and once you decide to use real indices, then looping over them is easy too (because that is exactly what indices are intended for):
for k = 1:numel(x)
xCentre(k) = x(k);
end
although in your case, because you simply allocate the values without any change, this could be simplified even more to just:
xCentre = x;
Did you see what I did there? By getting rid of a bad code design decision, I made the code much much simpler. You can do that too!
PS: putting any kind of meta-data into variable names will make for slow, buggy, obfuscated, hard to debug code. See this tutorial for more information on why:
