how do I put arrays into a for loop

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I have a .mat file. There are 24 array in this file. I want to calculate the mean of the first N elements of an array.
But what I want is for the 24 directories in the .mat file to automatically enter this into a for loop. I am waiting for your help in this matter.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 15 Apr 2021
Edited: Stephen23 on 15 Apr 2021
"There are 24 array in this file. Array names like y1, y2 ... "
The most important thing is to load into an output variable:
S = load(...);
then you can trivially access the fieldnames of the structure S:
Loop over the fieldnames, allocate the data to an array, perform your calculation on the array. Done.
Rik
Rik on 23 Apr 2021
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how do I put arrays into a for loop
I have a .mat file. There are 24 array in this file. I want to calculate the mean of the first N elements of an array.
But what I want is for the 24 directories in the .mat file to automatically enter this into a for loop. I am waiting for your help in this matter.

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SungJun Cho
SungJun Cho on 15 Apr 2021
Edited: SungJun Cho on 15 Apr 2021
To calculate the mean of the first N elements of an array, you can use
mean_y1 = mean(y1(1:N));
However, you may import a .mat file which I suppose will give you a matrix in which each row or column is one array. In that case, just perform
mean_mat = mean(Y(:,1:N),2); % if each row is an array
mean_mat = mean(Y(1:N,:),1); % if each column is an array
and you will get a matrix containing the mean of first N elements of each array.
This should be a more efficient way to compute the mean than to use a for loop, but if using a for-loop is necessary, feel free to let me know.
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SungJun Cho
SungJun Cho on 15 Apr 2021
No problem!
I imported your data as a structure type, then converted it into a cell type using "struct2cell". Once the data was converted, I noticed that the arrays named "y" (e.g., y1, y10, etc.) were located from 30th to 53rd rows of the data, so I extracted only those arrays so that the variable "Y" contains only the y arrays.
studentmatlaber
studentmatlaber on 15 Apr 2021
thank you so much. have a nice day.

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