how can I create a name like myfunc500?!

I have a lot of matrices with these names:

A200

A300

A400

...

and I want to do some algebra on each of them. I am looking for writing a loop to do all of them together, but how can I do it? I need to write a loop like:

for i =200:100:500

Ai(50,50) = mean (:,50)

end

but it is not possible in this way. Does anyone has a suggestion?

thanks

[Jan]

A very very frequently asked question. And the solution is always the same: Do not hide indices in the names of variables. Use indices as indices instead. See Walter's answer.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

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

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

If you have just a handful of them (say, less than 7 or 8) then just deal with them one at a time or pass them into a function if you want to do the same things on all of them.

ProcessData(A100);
ProcessData(A200);
....
ProcessData(A800);

If you have more than that, I'd try to change the m-file that created them so it doesn't create them but creates regular indexed arrays, like a 3D array if you have 300 2D arrays to deal with,

for plane = 1 : 800
  ProcessData(A(:,:,plane));
end

or (last resort) use a cell array.

for theCellIndex = 1 : 800 % Process 800 arrays inside cells.
  ProcessData(A{theCellIndex});
end

See the FAQ for a discussion of cells.