Is it possible to save the output of a command as a variable?

If have data in PDF format, is it possible to use the file name as the variable name for the table created from the extracted data? I need to extract data from many files (Test1-100) so I am trying to automate part of the process so I can aggregate the information.

file = 'Test1.pdf';
[pathstr, TestNumber, ext] = fileparts(file);
str = extractFileText(file);
numbers = extractBetween(str, 'Start', 'Stop')
x = str2num(extractBetween(numbers, '0', '10'));
y = str2num(extractBetween(numbers, '11,' '20'));
table = array2table([x;y], 'VariableNames', {'Area 1', 'Area2'})

What syntax do I use to make "Test1" the variable name of the table??

[Stephen23]

Do NOT use ASSIGNIN or anything similar, unless you want to force yourself into writing slow, complex, inefficient code:

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

Unfortunately beginners learn bad code practices like this and then wonder why their code is incredibly inefficient and hard to work with. The simple and very efficient MATLAB approach is to use indexing into one array (e.g. a cell array).

[Nadeau Hahne]

Thank you for your caution Stephen

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

VarName='Test1';

assignin('base',VarName,table)

[Nadeau Hahne]

works Perfectly!! Was trying to figure this out for a while Thank you!

[Stephen23]

"works Perfectly" at making it slow and complex to process your data.