MATLAB: Is it possible to extract all fields from a structure automatically

a really bad ideastructvariable

I have data in the form: mydata.x = 100; mydata.s = 'abc'; mydata.Y = [1 2 3]; And I want variables x = 100; s = 'abc'; Y = [1 2 3]; How to extract variables automatically? (suppose that I don't know the names of the variables!)

Best Answer

You seem intent on magically making variables pop into existence in the workspace, so here is probably the least-worst way of doing that. The trick is to change the save command by adding the '-struct' option:
 >> S.name = 'anna';
 >> S.data = 1:3;
 >> save('temp.mat','-struct','S')
and then load it like this:
 >> clear
 >> load('temp.mat')
 >> name
 name = anna
 >> data
 data =
    1   2   3
and you will find all of those variables in your workspace.
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