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Re: convert string to scalar, Is it possible?
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Feb 6, 2013 3:57 AM
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:40:07 PM UTC+13, grega wrote:
> Thank you for you kind suggestion, but the problem is that the indices and variables are provided in mentioned forms and are of size > 300. If I do this by hand each time I get new set of indices and variables, I'll go crzy...
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> TideMan <mulgor@gmail.com> wrote in message <7eb0e508-ac40-4df2-ad77-a77d71da185d@googlegroups.com>...
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> > On Wednesday, February 6, 2013 9:18:08 PM UTC+13, grega wrote:
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> > > I have number of column indeces, e.g. A = [1, 4, 6,...] and corresponding labels in strings, e.g. B = {'a' 'b' 'c' ...}, so I would like to assign indeces to corresponding strings, so that the results is:
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> > > Hope I provided a bit more insight for suggestions :) Tnx
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> > > > yes it is possible, but first of all, really think about why you want to do this?
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> > DON'T DO THIS!!
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> > You will end up in an awful muddle and no one here will have any sympathy for you.
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> > Instead, learn to use structures, whence you would have:
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> > Believe me, learning this will improve the quality of your life.
Who is suggesting you do it manually?
That's the very reason for using structures: so that you can do whatever you want to do automatically.
help setfield
will get you started.
Another way is:
for ix=1:length(string)
s.(string{ix})=x(ix);
end
where string is a cell array containing your variable names and x is a numerical array containing your data.
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