Let me add another solution:
>> N = 5;
>> f = cellstr(num2str((1:N)', 'f%d'))
f =
'f1'
'f2'
'f3'
'f4'
'f5'
If N
is more than two digits long (>= 10
), you will start getting extra spaces. Add a call to strtrim(f)
to get rid of them.
As a bonus, there is an undocumented built-in function sprintfc
which nicely returns a cell arrays of strings:
>> N = 10;
>> f = sprintfc('f%d', 1:N)
f =
'f1' 'f2' 'f3' 'f4' 'f5' 'f6' 'f7' 'f8' 'f9' 'f10'
Try the following:
for i = 1:4
result = strcat('f',int2str(i));
end
If you use this for naming several files that your code generates, you are able to concatenate more parts to the name. For example, with the extension at the end and address at the beginning:
filename = strcat('c:\...\name',int2str(i),'.png');
according to this it looks like you have to set "N" before trying to use it and it looks like it needs to be an int not string? Don't know much bout MatLab but just what i gathered from that site..hope it helps :)
Using sprintf
was already proposed by ldueck in a comment, but I think this is worth being an answer:
f(i) = sprintf('f%d', i);
This is in my opinion the most readable solution and also gives some nice flexibility (i.e. when you want to round a float value, use something like %.2f
).
One easy non-loop approach would be to use genvarname
to create a cell array of strings:
>> N = 5;
>> f = genvarname(repmat({'f'}, 1, N), 'f')
f =
'f1' 'f2' 'f3' 'f4' 'f5'
The function genvarname
has been deprecated, so matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings
can be used instead in the following way to get the same output:
>> N = 5;
>> f = strrep(matlab.lang.makeUniqueStrings(repmat({'f'}, 1, N), 'f'), '_', '')
f =
1×5 cell array
'f1' 'f2' 'f3' 'f4' 'f5'
Source: Stackoverflow.com