MATLAB: Is there a way of avoiding repeating the structure name when calling or setting the different fields of that structure

Question

Hi,

Is there a way of avoiding repeating the structure name when calling or setting the different fields of that structure? For instance instead of doing:

patient.name = 'John';
patient.age = '32';

I would like to do something like (this does not work…)

with patient
    .name = 'John';
    .age = 32;
end

This would make my code so much lighter and easier to read 🙂

Answer 1

patient = struct('name','John','Age',32) ;

doc struct.