Accessing the Value of Variables in the Workspace
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Hello,
I currently have a list of arrays in the workspace that I loaded from a .dat file. It generates around 600 variables with large number of data in my workspace. My goal is to access the values of all those generated variables so that I can use it to generate some plots.
The problem is that I do not know how to access the value of the variables without knowing the names. I want to be able to access the data inside ´specific variables in the workspace without directly using the variable name.
The idea goes like this:
handles.workspace = evalin('base','who');
set(handles.unselecteddatalistbox,'String',handles.workspace); % adds the names of the variables in the workspace to a listbox in a GUI where I can select and move the name of the variables that i have selected inito another list.
% Once i have the names of the varariables that i want access in another variables call selectedDataStr, how can i access that informatoin?
for i = 1:length(selectedDataStr)
for j = 1:length(handles.workspace)
if strcmp(selectedDataStr(i),handles.workspace(j))
eval([selectedDataStr(i),',handles.workspace(j)']);
% this does not seem to work becuase even though i think matlab recognizes that selectedDataStr(i) is a string it does recognizes that i want the data from the name of the variables of that it is inside handles.workspace(j).
end
end
end
Please advice,
Alberto
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Accepted Answer
Dennis
on 14 Mar 2019
You can load your data into a structure:
s=load('MyData.mat');
Now you can use fieldnames to obtain all variable names in your structure and acces them:
fnames=fieldnames(s); %fnames will be a cell
s.(fnames{1}) %how to obtain your data
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