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change name of variable completely in a loop

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chess
chess on 17 Aug 2014
Commented: chess on 17 Aug 2014
I have a question.I wonder is there anyway in Matlab to change the name of variable to completely different thing in a for loop? Meaning that I would like name of first variable to be variable211, second variable is variable232 and third variable is variable345.
I am aware of something like:
for i=1:10
A(i)=i^2 % This creates A(1),A(2)......A(10)
I know I can use cell array but that one still gives something like array like A{1}, A{2}.I am looking completely different name like I explained above.
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Adam
Adam on 17 Aug 2014
How would you expect to be able to access all these variables afterwards if they were able to have transient names? That is exactly what an array is for to have one variable name and lots of results.
chess
chess on 17 Aug 2014
like normal variables ,I run the for loop and all of those variables are copied in the workspace.It is not a good opinion but I just want to do it for specific task to make the name of variables more meaningful.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 17 Aug 2014
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chess
chess on 17 Aug 2014
I do not know why everyone recommends this link. However this is not what I want. I just want to know is it possible to change name of variable or image from one iteration to next to a custom name like for i=1 it is variable211 for i=2 it is variable235
Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 17 Aug 2014
Because the link explains how to create a variable, variable211
i=1
eval(sprintf('varaible%d=%d',211,i))

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