symbollic solving from character string

Hi everyone, I have a string consisting of e.g. 'y = ca / dy' and wish to solve this symbolically for ca and then calculate ca if I have data for y and dy. I know to do this you would normally type

syms y ca dy

and then use solve. But how can I use syms where y, ca and dy come from a cell array e.g.

inputs = {'y','ca','dy'}

ie something like this i would have thought: syms inputs{1} inputs{2} inputs{3}

Thanks for any help you can provide in this

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

syms(inputs{1})

%or

syms(inputs{1:2})

%or if you want the entire cell

syms(inputs{:})

[David]

Great, thanks for that. it does exactly what I need