Re: A question about making variables

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:14 PM, vilsu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello again
>
> I approach you as I know nothing about programming. I ask you a question you
> probably feel is the basic thing to learn in lesson one:
>
> I have a "for" loop in wich "i" ranges from 1 to say 5000.
>
> How can I make as many variables with the help of "i" to keep them in Octave
> memory?
>
> Yours vilsu
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Hi,
There may be others ways of doing this, and probably it is not
recommended to do this. Anyway, one way to generate variables in a
loop is

for i=1:500
    eval(["var" num2str(i) "= 0"]);
endfor

This creates 500 variables named "var1", "var2", ... "var500" each one
containing a value 0.

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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University of Zürich
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