Giving names to different files automatically

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George
George on 8 Jul 2014
Answered: Jos (10584) on 8 Jul 2014
Hi sorry for the "silly " question , but i have a pretty large script written and i am trying to make a bit more functional i have several hundreds variables that repeat themselves into multiple files so i would like to use the command style fname = 'name_given' and then have something like these throughout the file but with fname as first component and A, B, C ,D etc as the secondary naming components.
fname = 'new'
fname+A = VarName ===> fname_A (getting out something like this)
any ideas please?

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Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 8 Jul 2014
Rethink your programming style critically. The basic idea about variables is that their contents change during execution of the code, and not their names…
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George
George on 8 Jul 2014
my contents do not change, they are the same quantities over multiple files this it would be much easier to automate the naming process since the other stay the same

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Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 8 Jul 2014
Maybe you can use structures?
MyStructure.A = 8 ;
MyStructure.B = 1:5 ;
MyField = 'A'
result = 2 * MyStructure.(MyField)

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