Storing values of a variable in a new one
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Hello! I have a variable with two rows. One contains time points and the other numbers that indicate which event happened at these time points. How do I best go about going through this variable and storing the values of the different events in new variables. Grateful for any help! Cheers!
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Stephen23
on 22 Sep 2015
Edited: Stephen23
on 22 Sep 2015
"How do I best go about going through this variable and storing the values of the different events in new variables"
Don't.
Keep your data in one numeric array, and then use indices to access the parts of it that you need to do. Trying to create variable names dynamically is a poor programming practice and will be obfuscated, hard to debug, and slow to run.
Learn to use MATLAB efficiently:
- Keep your data in numeric arrays.
- Do not use multiple arrays when one will do.
- Use the dimensions of those arrays, rather than splitting them up into multiple variables.
- Only use cell arrays when your data does not fit neatly into one array due to mismatching dimensions.
- Do not create variables dynamically.
- Learn to write vectorized code.
Why it is a bad practice to create variable names dynamically:
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