string - Matlab cells with Names -

note: please if can point solution without 'eval', great!!! if not, i'll thankful :-) well, have cell (var_s) has in first row strings , in second row matrices:

clc clearvars fclose  l=[11 22 33 44]; m=[1 2 3]; n=[101 102 103 104 105, 95 96 97 98 99]; var_s=cell(2,3); var_s(1,1:3)={'rn', 'le', 'o'}; %// strings different , not created in loop.  var_s(2,1:3)={l, m, n};         %// no correlation possible.   %//than delete variables because can work cell (var_s{2,:})  %//to execute computations clearvars l m n   %//now want save values stored inside of cells in  %//second line of var_s, var_s{2,:}, associating them names in first %//row of var_s, var_s{1,:}, in .mat file %//but let's imagine instead of having size(var_s{2,:})=3 have %//something 1000 (but lets keep simple having 3).  %//consequently want use 'for' work!  %//and @ point issue appears. how can use strings %//inside var_s{1,:} create variables , store them in .mat file %//the values in cells of var_s{2,:} associated them?   filename='clima'; a=0; save(filename,'a'); %//creats file variable a=0   i=1:length(var_s(2,:)) genvarname(var_s{1,i})=var_s{2,i}; %//the idea create variable using stringn , associate values  save(filename,char(var_s{1,i}),'-append'); %//the idea add created variable has same name in var_s{1,i} end clearvars   %//after access variables stored in 'clima.mat'  %//by name such load('clima.mat') rn le o 

and result must

  rn = 11 22 33 44   le = 1 2 3   n = 101 102 103 104 105 

your question pretty covered in docs save() command under "save structure fields individual variables". there, must create struct.

to create struct(), dynamically create field names, not of code must changed. once struct created in loop, save struct once after loop option '-struct', automatically generates new variable each field in struct.

s = struct(); i=1:length(var_s(2,:))     s.(var_s{1,i})=var_s{2,i}; % struct dynamic field names end save(filename, '-struct', 's'); 

now let's see, stored:

whos('-file', 'clima.mat')   name      size            bytes  class     attributes    le        1x3                24  double                 o         1x10               80  double                 rn        1x4                32  double  

as can see, stored 3 variables in file.