Saving a variable with an index in a for loop

Hello. I am running into an issue of saving a created matrix with an index added to it for example

for i=1:10
x=1:10
y=1:10
z=1:10
A=[x y z]
end

What im tryng to do is then save the resulting matrix as A1, A2, A3 ect. any pointers for this?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Can you do this? Yes.

Should you do this? The general consensus is no. See that Answers post for an explanation and alternatives.

[Brooks Lane]

Hmm, Ive looked at your link and I'm a little lost tbh. What woould you recommend to do then if the arrays x y z being made are not consistent? I tried something such as :

A(:,:,i) =[x y z];

But am getting: Error using horzcat

Dimensions of arrays being concatenated are not consistent.

Any inputs?

[Walter Roberson]

If you do not have consistency of sizes, then use a cell array

A{i} = [x y z]

[Stephen23]

The solutions given above concatenate your data, which apparently your data is not suitable for.

You can trivially resolve this by using a cell array, for example:

c = cell(10,3);
for ii = 1:10
    c{ii,1} = 1:10;
    c{ii,2} = 1:10;
    c{ii,3} = 1:10;
end

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-cell-array.html

Your approach of putting pseudo-indices into the variable names should definitely be avoided.