Load variable as

Dear all, currently if I want to change the name of a variable stored in a .mat file I have first to load it and then change its name, once loaded in the workspace. This imply that if I already have a variable with the same name, maltlab overwrite it.

Question: is there a way to change the name on the fly while importing? I.e. a kind of load('test.mat','hi') as 'hello'.

Thank you

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

hello=load('test.mat','hi')
hello.hi