How can I make struct with existing variables?
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Hi all, Well i have some variables for example alfa, beta and gama, Now I want to make structure that will contain these variables. Can someone give me a code or function with which i will be able to do it.
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Matt J
on 22 Aug 2014
Edited: Matt J
on 22 Aug 2014
>> clear
>> a=1; b=2; c=3;
>> s=whos;
>> C=cell2struct({s.name}.',{s.name})
C =
a: 'a'
b: 'b'
c: 'c'
>> structvars(C,0); %copy/paste the output below to the command line
ans =
C.a = a;
C.b = b;
C.c = c;
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Guillaume
on 22 Aug 2014
s = struct('alpha', alpha, 'beta', beta, 'gamma', gamma);
doc struct
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Guillaume
on 22 Aug 2014
You could dynamically create a structure with 30 field names that are the names of the variables, however I would urge to think whether it's really what you want. How are you going to then use that structure if the field names are created arbitrarily. I would advise against this as your code may easily break in the future because a hardcoded field is not there anymore.
If that's really what you want to do, then structvars from the other answer (you have to download it), or the following function will do it:
function s = variables2struct(varargin)
s = struct;
for var = 1:nargin
s.(genvarname(inputname(var), fieldnames(s))) = varargin{var};
end
end
Adam
on 22 Aug 2014
Edited: Adam
on 22 Aug 2014
myStruct.alfa = alfa;
myStruct.beta = beta;
etc.
Or
myStruct = struct( 'alfa', alfa, 'beta', beta );
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Adam
on 22 Aug 2014
I could try to give some help further along this line, but I think potentially either of Matt J's solutions would work better so unless neither of them do I'll leave it.
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