Concatenating vectors based on list of variable names

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I have 5 column vectors in my workspace with the same length, and a cell array with their names in the order that I would like to horizontally concatenate them in. In this example I use 5 vectors, but there can be more.
a1 = rand(5,1);
a10 = rand(5,1);
a11 = rand(5,1);
a2 = rand(5,1);
a3 = rand(5,1);
order = {'a1', 'a2', 'a3', 'a10', 'a11'};
How can I horizontally concatenate the variables in this order, such that I have the following result?
[a1, a2, a3, a10, a11]

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BobH
BobH on 17 Mar 2020
Edited: BobH on 17 Mar 2020
c = cellfun(@eval, order, 'un', 0);
r = vertcat( c{:} );
% horzcat if that's what you wanted, and all variables in order are same size
vertical concatenation looks like this (semicolons not commas)
[a1; a2; a3; a10; a11]

More Answers (1)

Sriram Tadavarty
Sriram Tadavarty on 17 Mar 2020
Hi Jerki,
This can be done with a for loop as shown below:
out =[]
for i = 1:numel(order)
out = [out eval(order{i})];
end
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sriram

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