How to insert a int value into the name of a variable (for loop)
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I'm trying to iterate throw these variable names in a for loop, here's my code:
form= 'dd-mmm-yyyy HH:MM:SS';
for i = 1:15
yearfrac=vpa(string([data_v3_data.b [INSERT i here] date]),10);
year = double(fix(yearfrac))
day = double(yearfrac-year)
a = datestr(datenum(year,1,1)+day*365)
data_v3_data.b + [INSERT i here] + date = datenum(a,form)
end
[INSERT i here] indicates where I would like the integer (1:15) to appear. I have a list of variables named:
data_v3_data.b1date
data_v3_data.b2date
data_v3_data.b3date
data_v3_data.b4date
etc etc..
Thanks !
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Stephen23
on 1 Sep 2017
Edited: Stephen23
on 1 Sep 2017
data(1).date = ...
data(2).date = ...
data(3).date = ...
data(4).date = ...
This makes it trivially easy to access the data using indexing, which is fast and efficient, e.g. the second date:
data(2).date
Not only that you can very conveniently convert any field into a comma-separated list, which makes it simple to join the field values together into one array, e.g. to put all the dates into one cell array:
out = {data.date}
or to assign them in exactly the same way.
While it is possible to define structure fieldnames dynamically, in your case (you proposed numbered field names) it serves no purpose whatsoever and will only make your code slow and complicated.
Writing neat efficient MATLAB code is easy, once you avoid bad design decisions like putting meta-data into field or variable names:
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