Load Mat File And Change Variable Names

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Load mat file and change variable names.

The load option with output argument then your variables become fields of that struct which allows you to rename them renaming variables themselves is not a fun task. Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar. Jan on 8 mar 2015 hello i have several matlab files 1 mat 2 mat 3 mat 25 mat and each file contains a 24x4 matrix named a. It would be cool to have a possibility to automatically determin the variable name or just to asign it to another given variable.

If filename has no extension that is no text after a period load looks for a file named filename mat if filename has an extension other than mat the load function treats. True to append the mat extension to the end of the given filename if not already present. T load. Thanks for your answer but that is not what i was looking for.

How do i load all of these mat files simultaneously in matlab and change the variables for each one from calories to calories fruit name so that i can have all the variable values in the workspace to play with. This method follows the general rule of thumb to avoid poofing variables into the workspace. Follow 65 views last 30 days luke rrr on 8 mar 2015. This saves my data in data mat file but with variable name mydata.

All of these mat files has a variable name calories assigned a value. Is there any other better way to do this than. A similar problem occurs if i load a file but for any reason have no possibility to read out the name of the variable stored in it. If you load the mat file into a struct i e.

Can also pass open file like object. If you do not specify filename the load function searches for a file named matlab mat. Now i want to save this array in a mat file but i want to change the variable name. Now you want to load that variable but with the name t.

Say that i have a mat file that contains a variable and i need to load this variable and give it a different name. Load a file and change the variable name in a for loop. Now whenever i am loading a new mat file i am changing the name of the variable 6 times in the program. Now i want to save values of mydata in mat file but i want to save the value under a variable name given via input function.

You can then save the struct back out to the mat file with the struct flag.