MATLAB: How to call files with location names of >1 words

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Dear all,

I am writing an App with AppDesigner. In my Interface, I have several locations that can be chosen, namely Berlin, Amsterdam and Mexico City. In my folder, I have files which are called depending on the location. These files are called temperature_berlin, temperature_amsterdam and temperature_mexicocity. I do have implemented the lower() code, so my programm looks for lower case names. However, I do have the problem that Mexico City is written in two words, so my program does not recognize the according file.

location = lower(app.location.Value);
Struct_temperature = load(['.\data\temperatures\temperature_', location]);
temperature = Struct_temperature.(['temperature_',location]);

The file names are temperature_mexicocity etc.

Writing a file with – such as temperature_mexico-city is not allowed. This would also mean to write the location name in my interface as Mexico-City which is not very pretty.

Could somebody give me a hint?

With kind regards

Gudrun

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You can delete all spaces with the command

strrep(str, ' ', '')

Then

location = lower(strrep(app.location.Value, ' ', ''));
Struct_temperature = load(['.\data\temperatures\temperature_', location]);
temperature = Struct_temperature.(['temperature_',location]);

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