MATLAB: Filename IDL to Matlab Conversion

Question

Okay so I'm trying to convert a couple IDL programs into MatLab programs, I'm using the IDL2Matlab program but it seems to have some issues with certain things so i'm trying to clean them up.

My question is:

The IDL was saving a file name as such:

ival_filename = '*ival.' + smode + '.txt';

where smode is a global variable it's taking these 3 parts and using them to name files

How would I do this in matlab?

Thanks

Answer 1

ival_filename = ['*ival.', smode, '.txt'];