Naming Vectors with Nested For Loop Variables

I am currently working on a project where I have multiple data sets. I have one excel file that I have loaded into Matlab that is broken down into several components. I have 10 Patients and each patient has 4 Different Conditions. Within Each condition there are 8 1x3 vectors, signifying three coordinates (x,y,and z) My question is...Is there a way to name each vector based on both patient # and condition #?

For example, if I would like to do computations on Left_Ankle_Coordinates for Patient 2 with condition 2, is there a way to name it in a way where I know both the patient # and condition #, like Left_Ankle_Coordinates_2_2? I would like to put all of this in a for loop and then write to excel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

[Iain]

You're asking for something like this, modified for exactly what you want (i.e., the real data, rather than ones).

 list1 = {'left','right','top','bum'};
 list2 = {'A','B','C','D','E','F'};
 list3 = {'1','12','34',73'};

 for i = 1:5
  for j = 1:6
   for k = 1:4
    name = [list1{i} '_' list2{j} '_' list{3}];
    eval([name ' =  ones(8,1);' ])
   end
  end
 end

Its really nasty from a programming point of view. You would be much better simply indexing a large array, or cell array:

 for patient = 1:10
  for condition = 1:10 
   Left_ankle{patient}{condition} = ones(8,1);
  end
 end