Addressing variables with special characters in the name
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Hi,
I have some .mat files generated by an external program which have some variables with a percentage sign in them. Is there any way at all to address these variables within matlab, really just to rename them to something without the special character?
i.e change nnnn% to nnnn
Many thanks
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Walter Roberson
on 17 Feb 2021
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 16 Sep 2023
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Walter Roberson
on 16 Sep 2023
(I tried it a couple of months ago, around April 2023, and it still worked.)
dpb
on 16 Sep 2023
A brute-force, dead-ahead solution is at <Fix .mat file variable names>. It's simply string substitution...as @Walter Roberson notes, the new variable name must be the same length as the original to not corrupt the file; that is you must substitute in a valid character in place of the invalid one, you can't just eliminate it, thereby shortening the name.
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