user prompt to select which table to process (and column)

Hi All,

I have a relative trivial question that I would be needing some guidence.

I have imported a data set called file22. The form of file22 is as follows:

If I want to access file22 Time column I type file22.Time, and the whole time column is selected..

I have multiple files:

file22,

file23,

file24 etc

What I am stuggling is to figure out a way where the user is prompted to type the file s/he wants to process, I have this but doesnt seem to work:

prompt = 'name of file  :    ';
FileName=input(prompt);

%conditioning tables for processing

%time stamp conditioning
FileName.Time=FileName.Time*60*60*24;

What I get is a table called file name.

[Ajay Kumar]

Can you try to explain it more clearly, for example with inputs and expected outputs with some screenshots if possible?

[Georgios Galatis]

Hi,

As mentioned in the question I have loaded into matlab several files:

file22

file23

file24

etc

Each file has been loaded as a table with 3 columns (Time,AMU,Pressure). If I whant to access the "'Time"column I write i.e file22.Time and Matlab will output the Time column of the table.

file22.Time

Since I have many files, as described before, I would like the script to ask the user what file it should handle:

prompt = 'name of file  :    ';
FileName=input(prompt);

hence ín this case if the user types file22, then

FileName.Time

Should read out the same table, instead though it creats the same file22 table under the name FileName