Thread Subject: Copying "i" to a new variable after load

Hi!

This is my first posting here because I couldn't find any answer through the internet... sorry for my english because it's not my native language, well here it goes

I have a mat file with a certain matrix called "i" which in my case is 50x1 with doubles in it. It happens that I load this file inside my function like this and I do the following:

function [] = hola()
  load tabla_Phi.mat
  io=i;
end

If I do this, io gives me io=0 + 1.0000i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a complex number!!

If I create a break point in the line io=i; and in the command window I type io=i; io will come out ok, but if I press F10 for another step the result comes out wrong, I tried this without the load and creating a vector "i" and this doesn't happen so it might be a problem with the combination between load and "i". This is so weird, it took me a long time to create the "i" vector so I really need to solve this problem, hope anyone can help me.

Thanks
Virginia

"Virginia Silva" <virginiasilvamunoz@gmail.com> wrote in message <ghbmqa$48u$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi!
>
> This is my first posting here because I couldn't find any answer through the internet... sorry for my english because it's not my native language, well here it goes
>
> I have a mat file with a certain matrix called "i" which in my case is 50x1 with doubles in it. It happens that I load this file inside my function like this and I do the following:
>
> function [] = hola()
> load tabla_Phi.mat
> io=i;
> end
>
> If I do this, io gives me io=0 + 1.0000i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a complex number!!
>
> If I create a break point in the line io=i; and in the command window I type io=i; io will come out ok, but if I press F10 for another step the result comes out wrong, I tried this without the load and creating a vector "i" and this doesn't happen so it might be a problem with the combination between load and "i". This is so weird, it took me a long time to create the "i" vector so I really need to solve this problem, hope anyone can help me.
>
> Thanks
> Virginia

This could be a workaround:

function [] = hola()
i = [];
load tabla_Phi.mat
io=i;
end

"Virginia Silva" <virginiasilvamunoz@gmail.com> wrote in message <ghbmqa$48u$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi!
>
> This is my first posting here because I couldn't find any answer through the internet... sorry for my english because it's not my native language, well here it goes
>
> I have a mat file with a certain matrix called "i" which in my case is 50x1 with doubles in it. It happens that I load this file inside my function like this and I do the following:
>
> function [] = hola()
> load tabla_Phi.mat
> io=i;
> end
>
> If I do this, io gives me io=0 + 1.0000i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a complex number!!
>
> If I create a break point in the line io=i; and in the command window I type io=i; io will come out ok, but if I press F10 for another step the result comes out wrong, I tried this without the load and creating a vector "i" and this doesn't happen so it might be a problem with the combination between load and "i". This is so weird, it took me a long time to create the "i" vector so I really need to solve this problem, hope anyone can help me.
>
> Thanks
> Virginia
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Virginia:
Give this a try:

storedValues = load('tabla_Phi.mat'); % Read all stored values into a structure.
io = storedValues.i; % Assign just the "i" variable of the structure to the "io" variable.

See if that works.
In general, it's not recommended to use i as a variable name for precisely the reason you experienced.

Regards,
ImageAnalyst

Thank you both!

Now it's working...

I used "i" only because I wanted to follow the notation from my reference, but it looks like this wasn't a very good idea, anyway thanks!

Virginia

"Virginia Silva" <virginiasilvamunoz@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ghbmqa$48u$1@fred.mathworks.com...
> Hi!
>
> This is my first posting here because I couldn't find any answer through
> the internet... sorry for my english because it's not my native language,
> well here it goes
>
> I have a mat file with a certain matrix called "i" which in my case is
> 50x1 with doubles in it. It happens that I load this file inside my
> function like this and I do the following:
>
> function [] = hola()
> load tabla_Phi.mat
> io=i;
> end
>
> If I do this, io gives me io=0 + 1.0000i !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a complex
> number!!

Yes, that's expected behavior. Read this document from the support website:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-166JL.html?solution=1-166JL

> If I create a break point in the line io=i; and in the command window I
> type io=i; io will come out ok, but if I press F10 for another step the
> result comes out wrong, I tried this without the load and creating a
> vector "i" and this doesn't happen so it might be a problem with the
> combination between load and "i". This is so weird, it took me a long time
> to create the "i" vector so I really need to solve this problem, hope
> anyone can help me.

Joerg and ImageAnalyst gave you two suggestions; I'd personally use
ImageAnalyst's solution, as it scales better with the number of variables in
your MAT-file.

--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com