RE: dynamic list of variable names

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Sep-2005, Billings, Paul wrote:

| I don't know about being "stuck" -- a structure is quite natural:
| function ret = someother_function(Nvars)
|   ...
|   ret.variable_1 = 123;
|   ret.variable_2 = 'abc';
|   % etc.
| 
| You might also look at the setfield function, which uses a string (perhaps
| generated via sprintf) to define the member names.

You can also use syntax like this

  x.("foo") = value;

to set fields in a structure when the name is in a character string
(or variable containing a character string).

jwe



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