Assign variables and id

Just a quick question so i have:

[x,y]
ans =
    0.1771    0.1822
    0.8296    0.0991
    0.7669    0.4898
    0.9345    0.1932
    0.1079    0.8959

How do i assign this to have for example:

c1 = (0.1771,0.1822)
c2 = (0.8296,0.09910
c3 = (0.7669,0.4898)
...

until all values are assigned an 'id'

Thank you

[Rik]

You should not do that. There are exceedingly few situations where numbered variables are a better choice than an array. A longer discussion can be found here.

An array can be indexed, while you would have to regenerate the variable every time you wanted to use it.

What is you want to achieve? We might be able to give you advice about what you could use instead.

[Samuel Shlong]

ok ill look in to that

thanks

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

A solution really depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you want to use c1, c2, etc to refer to a row of values, consider a table with rownames.

x = [0.1771; 0.8296; 0.7669; 0.9345; 0.1079];
y = [0.1822; 0.0991; 0.4898; 0.1932; 0.8959];
A = table(x,y,'RowNames',"c"+(1:length(x)))

A = 5×2 table
            x         y   
          ______    ______

    c1    0.1771    0.1822
    c2    0.8296    0.0991
    c3    0.7669    0.4898
    c4    0.9345    0.1932
    c5    0.1079    0.8959

A{'c2',:}

ans = 1×2

0.8296 0.0991

Another option is to use c1, c2, etc as your variable names in the table.

B = array2table([x,y]','VariableNames',"c"+(1:length(x)))

B = 2×5 table
      c1        c2        c3        c4        c5  
    ______    ______    ______    ______    ______

    0.1771    0.8296    0.7669    0.9345    0.1079
    0.1822    0.0991    0.4898    0.1932    0.8959

B.c3

ans = 2×1

0.7669 0.4898

You can learn more about accessing data in a table here.