assign loaded structs directly

I wonder, if there is no nicer way for doing this:

mdlPara = load([datasetPath,datasetName]);
rename = fieldnames(mdlPara);
mdlPara = mdlPara.(rename{1});

I want to load different named structs in my script. For acessing the data in the script I want them to have the same name (mdlPara). But with just loading them the struct is named

mdlPara.OLDSTRUCTNAME.Data. ...

is there a nicer way to get the form

mdlPara.Data. ...

directly

Answer 1

[Matt J]

No, I don't think there is a shorter way, but to avoid typing this repeatedly, you can just wrap it in a function,

 function mldPara = loadfirstvar(varargin)

   mdlPara = load(varargin{:});
   rename = fieldnames(mdlPara);
   mdlPara = mdlPara.(rename{1});

Answer 2

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi,

not really. But what you can do is to save the data as individual variables originally. So when you save your structure OLDSTRUCTNAME, do

save('thefile.mat', '-struct', 'OLDSTRUCTNAME');

When you load them afterwards, you don't have the structure name in mdlPara.

Titus