Saving .mat files in a 'for' loop

Hello,

I am trying to save a variable to a path in a for loop multiple times and I also want to save the variable in each loop under a different name.

This is essentially what I am trying to do except for a lot more computation to find X:

for j=1:1000
  X=j^2
  save('path/X_j.mat','X');
end

This obviously does not work since I cannot put a variable into the save path this way. Is it possible to put the variable j into the save path somehow so that I get an ordered series of .mat files? ie X_1.mat,X_2.mat,....

If it isn't possible to put the variable into the saved name is there some other way to get an ordered set of .mat files saved to the same path?

Thank you.

[Jy Lee]

Why save last value? where is whole data?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

save(['path/X_' num2str(j) '.mat'],'X')

[Prasanth Thangavel]

Thanks. Worked like a charm.

[ahmad eldeeb]

thanks

[Jui-tse Hung]

This is really helpful.

Thanks.

It help solve the problems when the dimension of a variable can't exceed 3.

so I can save the variable each time in my for loop.

Especially the weights in Machine Learning.

The weights are 3 dimension in our matrix.

And I want to change different parameters, then training my system again.

I have to save the weights each time.

This technique is really helpful.

[Brett Wood]

Thank you!!! This is so much more simple and intuitive than other methods I have thus far seen.

[Vasilis Mitropoulos]

THANKS MAAAAN; SOOO SIMPLE AND NICE:)

SAVED ME A FEW HOUR FROM MY LIFE!!!

[anuraj uthayasooriyan]

Helpful for me as well. Thank you very much.

[SAMSEERA P P]

thank yu so much....it worked for me too

Answer 2

[Osama Muhammad]

Sine_Loop is below

Where a blank is shown you must use correct English and simple statements to convey your answer. 10 points.

Open the Matlab file Sine_Loop in Blackboard. Save it to Documents\Matlab folder.

1. What is the last value of the output variable ‘result’______________?

2. How many sine waves are produced by this Matlab routine _______? What do they look like? Describe them in one sentence (If you write 2 sentences, no credit is given)_____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________.

3. What happens when line 5 is executed? ______________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________?

4. In MATLAB, a for loop begins with the statement indicating how many times the statements in the loop will be executed. This statement is called a _____________. The _____________ will be incremented by a specific value until its final value is reached (stop value). Therefore, the loop will be executed the number of times according to the ____________.

5. Circle the correct answer and fill in the blank: When I look at the plots, the I see the waveform’s amplitude does or does not change while the _________________ changes as each note is played.

Sine_Loop File code

1. A = 4;

2. samplerate=4000 %needs to be less than half of the frequency, F

3. for F = 100:100:300 %three frequencies

4. t = 0:1/samplerate:0.1; %this is the time variable

5. result = A*sin(2*pi*F*t) %compute result by the sine function (the loop will compute 3 results)

6. plot(2*pi*F*t,result)%plot the result on the y axis and time on x-axis

7. xlabel('time(s)');%label the x-axis

8. ylabel('Amplitude (units)'); %naming axis

9. sound(result,samplerate); %sounding the output signal at a sample rate of 8000 Hertz

10. pause(3); %pause between each loop

11. % the loop and sine wave computation keeps going for each Frequency

12. % 100, 200, 300

13. end %ending of loop

[Walter Roberson]

What is your question?

[Osama Muhammad]

Can you help with answering these question I'm stuck

[Osama Muhammad]

The fill in the blank by looking at the code which is at the bottom

[Walter Roberson]

When you ran the code, there would have been a final value stored in result. The value stored there needs to be answer given for the first question. However, considering that the answer will be a list of 401 values, perhaps they want a description instead of a list of numeric values.

[Osama Muhammad]

Can you answer the rest of them please

[Walter Roberson]

No. In #4 that part "This statement is called a _____________." has no answer in MATLAB. There is no name for the statement in MATLAB. There are names for similar statements in other languages, but those languages are not MATLAB.

The answer to #5 depends upon arguments about whether or not you are talking about a group property or a property individual samples when you refer to "waveform". There is no "right" answer to the question because it uses terms that have not been sufficiently defined.