Re: Possible bug? cell array indexing problem

[Carnë Draug]

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On 17 December 2012 18:52, mass168 <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Apologies, I tried to simplify this block of code, and
> accidentally left out some critical lines. It should have read as follows:
>
> y={[1,2,3];[5,8,9];[35:2:46]}
>
> n1=3; %Left out
> n2=2; %Left out
> n3=3; %Left out
>
>  for n103=1:3
>  a=num2str(n103)
>  b=strcat('n',a)
> y{b,1}(1,3)
>  endfor
>
> However, with this said, I'm tracking on your explanation that strings
> cannot be indexes. My question remains, is there a way to accomplish the
> intent of what i was doing here? I need the index "b" to be created
> externally, and it must be of the form that I used here (i.e n1, n2), or the
> more complicated example will not work.   Thanks!
>
> MJ

ok, so your problem is that `b' is not the variable for the index, but
the name of the variable that holds the index. Use eval(). Still, my
advice would be to redesign the thing, it looks messy.

Carnë