MATLAB: Ploting a file with variable name

plot variable name

Hi,
I have some variables in my workspace: profile_01, profile_02,…,profile_09 they are vectors of let say size 100. now, i need to simply plot them. I would like to plot them in a 'for' loop since they are similar outputs. I have tried this: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% for PRFno=1:Ncomponent figure name= num2str(PRFno, 5); fname = ['profile_0',name] plot(fname(:,:),'-') end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
however I got an error. Could you please help me with this? Cheers,Amir

Best Answer

If you use the {} Code tags, you will make the code a lot more readable for other users, and increase the chance that someone bothers to reply. I assume that this is representative for what you are doing and how MATLAB is responding?
profile_01 = zeros(100,1);
profile_02 = ones(100,1);
Ncomponent = 2;
for PRFno=1:Ncomponent 
  figure
  name = num2str(PRFno, 5); 
  fname = ['profile_0',name] 
  plot(fname(:,:),'-') 
end
>>
??? Error using ==> plot
Invalid first data argument
A possible work-around is to use eval, but I think that it is not the way to do things. Organizing the data in an array or cell array is probably neater. Anyways, here is something that seems to run:
profile_01 = zeros(100,1);
profile_02 = ones(100,1);
Ncomponent = 2;
for PRFno=1:Ncomponent 
  figure
  name = num2str(PRFno, 5); 
  fname = ['profile_0',name] 
  eval(['plot(',fname,')'])
end
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