MATLAB: How to assign the value of a variable with push button

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I would like that by pressing a push button it assigns the value of for example u = 1, so that later that value will use it in another button and it can start my program
get(handles.pushbutton1,u=1);
get(handles.pushbutton3,u=2);
get(handles.pushbutton4,u=3);
get(handles.pushbutton5,u=4);
switch u
case 1
m=[str2double(get(handles.edit3,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit4,'string'))(str2double(get(handles.edit9,'string'))); str2double(get(handles.edit10,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit11,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit15,'string'))];
case 2
m=[str2double(get(handles.edit3,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit4,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit6,'string')) (str2double(get(handles.edit9,'string'))); str2double(get(handles.edit10,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit11,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit12,'string')) (str2double(get(handles.edit15,'string'))); str2double(get(handles.edit16,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit17,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit18,'string')) str2double(get(handles.edit21,'string')) ];
case 3
case 4
otherwise
x=0
end
if all(size(m)==[2,3])
h=1
else
if all(size(m)==[3,4])
h=2
else
if all(size(m)==[4,5])
h=3
else
if all(size(m)==[5,6])
h=4
end
end
end
end
switch h
case 1
m(1,:)=m(1,:)/m(1,1);
m(2,:)=m(2,:)-(m(2,1))*(m(1,:));
m(2,:)=m(2,:)/m(2,2);
m(1,:)=m(1,:)-(m(1,2))*(m(2,:));
x1=m(1,3)
x2=m(2,3)
set(handles.edit35,'string',x1);
set(handles.edit36,'string',x2);
case 2
m(1,:)=m(1,:)/m(1,1);
m(2,:)=m(2,:)-(m(2,1))*(m(1,:));
m(3,:)=m(3,:)-(m(3,1))*(m(1,:));
m(2,:)=m(2,:)/m(2,2);
m(3,:)=m(3,:)-(m(3,2))*(m(2,:));
m(3,:)=m(3,:)/m(3,3);
m(2,:)=m(2,:)-(m(2,3))*(m(3,:));
m(1,:)=m(1,:)-(m(1,3))*(m(3,:));
m(1,:)=m(1,:)-(m(1,2))*(m(2,:));
x1=m(1,4)
x2=m(2,4)
x3=m(3,4)
set(handles.edit35,'string',x1);
set(handles.edit36,'string',x2);
set(handles.edit37,'string',x3);
case 3
x=3
case 4
x=2
otherwise
x=32
end