saving a figure as .png with name of a parameter

Hallo everyone, I am trying to save a fig as an image (.png) but I want the .png file to have a specific name of one parameter. For exapmle, I have created the str called "name"
name=strcat('quicklook_',dd, '/', mm, '/', yyyy);
and I am trying to save it with the following command
print(name,'-dpng','-r300')
but it doesn't work.
Any ideas?

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What do you mean with doesn't work? Do you get an error? You are aware that slashes in filenames generally result in folders being created?
Yes you are right. I was just confused and I couldn't think of the limitation of "/" in saving a filename in general

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You cant have "/" in your file names. Can you be happy with say
name=strcat('quicklook_',dd, '_', mm, '_', yyyy);
?

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Ohhh I didn't thought of it. I was confused because I used "/" in the title of the figure, but you are absolutely right. Thank you a lot!

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