Load Mat File And Change Variable Names

It would be cool to have a possibility to automatically determin the variable name or just to asign it to another given variable.

Load mat file and change variable names.

This saves my data in data mat file but with variable name mydata. 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. All of these mat files has a variable name calories assigned a value. 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.

Now i want to save this array in a mat file but i want to change the variable name. You can then save the struct back out to the mat file with the struct flag. Is there any other better way to do this than. If you do not specify filename the load function searches for a file named matlab mat.

If you load the mat file into a struct i e. Thanks for your answer but that is not what i was looking for. True to append the mat extension to the end of the given filename if not already present. Now whenever i am loading a new mat file i am changing the name of the variable 6 times in the program.

Dictionary in which to insert matfile variables. T load. Say that i have a mat file that contains a variable and i need to load this variable and give it a different name. 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.

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. This method follows the general rule of thumb to avoid poofing variables into the workspace. 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. Name of the mat file do not need mat extension if appendmat true.

Follow 65 views last 30 days luke rrr on 8 mar 2015. What i am asking is how can i use the name of the mat file here lrww in the rest of the commands without having to write it manually. Filename can include a file extension and a full or partial path. Name of file specified as a character vector or string scalar.

Can also pass open file like object.