Re: constructing variable names from strings

[Ben Abbott]

> On Jun 18, 2015, at 10:54 AM, D Peter Siddons <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to build a variable name from strings? I'd like to 
> batch-process a lot of data. The data is held in directories identified by 
> the dataset number, with Octave variable names built (by a C program) from 
> the dataset number. I then need to loop through these directories to perform 
> more processing, loading the data and saving processed data based on the 
> dataset ID. I need to have the variables uniquely identified with the dataset 
> because I need to have multiple datasets in memory simultaneously.

Could you use a structure array with fields?

data(datasetnumber).(variablename{1}) = …
data(datasetnumber).(variablename{2}) = …

Where “datasetnumber” is the integer index of the structure, and “variablename” 
is a cell-string of the variable names.

Ben