change two variable in the name in a loop using eval or any other command

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Hi I´m having a problem with this code:
HOw can I change both the M and N in the varibles of P_M_out_N names in a loop. Ithe following colud change N with loop
but I do not know how to change M values in the loop.
clc; clear all; close all
%P_M_out_N = u^j
u=3;
j=1:5;
M= [1 8 6 2 4];
N =[2 3 7 8 12]
for j = 1:length(M)
eval(sprintf('M_out_of_%d=u^j', N(j)))
end
%%
P_1_out_2 = u
P_8_out_3 = u^2
P_6_out_7= u^3
P_2_out_8 = u^4
P_4_out_12 = u^5
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 18 Mar 2019
Edited: Stephen23 on 18 Mar 2019
Dynamically defining or accessing variable names is one way that beginners force themselves into writing slow, complex, obfuscated, buggy, hard-to-debug code. Read this to know why:
Not only that, but the including meta-data into variable names or fieldnames makes code slow, complex, and fragile. Read this to know why:
In your case you can easily write much simpler, neater, more efficient code, just like experienced MATLAB users would:
>> u = 3;
>> M = [1,8,6,2,4];
>> N = [2,3,7,8,12];
>> V = u.^(1:numel(N))
V =
3 9 27 81 243
and just then use basic MATLAB indexing to access the corresponding vector elements. Indexing is simple, neat, easy to debug, and very efficient (unlike what you are trying to do).

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madhan ravi
madhan ravi on 18 Mar 2019
Edited: madhan ravi on 18 Mar 2019
for k=1:numel(M)
s.(sprintf('P_%d_out_%d',M(k),N(k)))=u^k;
end

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Abdulmajid Mrebit
Abdulmajid Mrebit on 18 Mar 2019
Thank you very much

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