MATLAB: Saving a new table for every loop iteration

Question

I am having trouble saving a function output in a for loop with a different variable name

variable_max = size(variable_scan,1);
for i = 1:variable_max
    data_name = variable_scan{i,1};
    column_name = variable_scan{i,2};
    name = strcat('data_table',num2str(i));
    name = dataextract(data,data_name,column_name);
end

dataextract outputs a table. I would like to save this output with something like table_'column_name'

Answer 1

Don't do that. Dynamic variable creation is a bad idea and totally unnecessary.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval

Use a cell array.

 data = cell(variable_max,1);
 column_name  = cell(variable_max,1);
 %and preallocate other variables, this is important if you want your code to be faster
 for k=1:variable_max
   ...
   ...
   column_name {k,1} = ...
   data{k,1} = dataextract(...)
 end

Now you have all your tables under one variable. You can access them by indexing.