saving structures in a database and retrieve the fields data

hi, i have a few structure eg

s(1).name = 'james';

s(1).num = 999;

s(2).name = 'hoper';

s(2).num = 111;

i want to save all of this this a database.

the next time i want to find the attributes, for example i find hoper in the database, i want the corresponding structure field .num to be displayed.

how can i do the above tasks? help..

thank you for your reply

Answer 1

[David Sanchez]

I hope the following helps you:

var_found = 22; % variable found in database
%example struct
s.name='ww';
s.age=22;
n=fieldnames(s);  % fieldnames within the struct
for k=1:numel(n)
    if s.(n{k})==var_found
        wanted_field = n{k}; % the field containing the value found in the database
        break
    end
end