How to declare a variable that contains both string and a variable which has been previously declared?

Hi, I'm having a tough time trying to declare a variable that contains both text and another variable. So, here's my situation:

Prompt1='Please enter the date';
1st variable: ReadDate=input('Prompt1',s); %I input the date as 1Sep
2nd variable: inFile='CTD_',num2str(ReadDate),'_GMT.dfs0';

The resulting inFile only displays CTD_ but not the full CTD_1Sep_GMT.dfs0

Please guide me on this.

Thanks!!

Answer 1

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I think the best way to create and use a "variable that contains both text and another variable" is to create a structure

myStruct.string = someStringVariable;
myStruct.var = someNumericalVariable;

You can call the fields almost anything you want - any legal variable name.