Dot indexing is not supported for variables of this type

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Hi,
I am developping an app, where i want to load data from a .m fille to fill items for a drop down list. How ever in run into an error "Dot indexing is not supported for variables of this type". Any one knows how to fix this issue ? my code is bellow . Thank you
function startupFcn(app, varargin)
evalin('base', 'clear all')
evalin('base', 'clc')
list = fopen('VehicleList.m','r'); % Read data from the file
A = textscan(list, '%c'); % Importing data
fclose(list); % close file
AB = char(A); % Cell to char conversion
assignin('base','A', A); % send to workspace
assignin('base','AB', AB); % send to workspace
app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items = AB.VehicleList; % << I get the error here
function UpdateVehicleList(app,new_car)
VehicleList = [app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items new_car];
save('VehicleList.m','VehicleList','-append');
app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items = VehicleList;
end
end
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Mohammad Sami
Mohammad Sami on 31 Aug 2020
Edited: Mohammad Sami on 31 Aug 2020
Another option can be to use readcell and writecell functions.
function startupFcn(app, varargin)
VehicleList = readcell('vehiclelist.txt');
app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items = VehicleList;
end
function UpdateVehicleList(app,new_car)
VehicleList = [cellstr(app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items) cellstr(new_car)]';
writecell(VehicleList,'vehiclelist.txt');
app.VehicleModelDropDown.Items = VehicleList;
end

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