How to create a table name using a string variable?

Hi,

How can I use a string variable for a table name?

eg.:

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T = 'ThisShouldBeMyTableName';
VariableNames = {'StartCash','EndDate'};
T = table(input_values.StartCash, input_values.EndDate, 'VariableNames',VariableNames);

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The table which is create should be named "ThisShouldBeMyTableName" not "T".

Thank you

[Stephen23]

Dynamically accessing variables names is one way that beginners force themselves into writing slow, complex, buggy code that is hard to debug. Read this to know some of the reasons why:

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

Use indexing. Indexing is simple, neat, and very efficient. Unlike what you are trying to do.

[Mustafa Calcuttawala]

@stephen Can you please elaborate what you mean by indexing? How exactly do I use this indexing?

[Walter Roberson]

Mustafa Calcuttawala: please read the material at the link that Stephen posted. It shows a number of different possibilities.

Answer 1

[Gabor]

I guess I will just use a cell which I will be store the the variable for the "name that should be" and the table itself too...

Thank you

[Steven Lord]

Or you could create a struct array with one field that contains your table and name that field using either the struct function or dynamic field names.

thefield = 'snowstorm';
data = magic(4);
structOfTables = struct(thefield, data)
structOfTables2.(thefield) = data

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Don't Do That.

You're Going To Do It Anyhow, Aren't you?

Answer 3

[Gabor]

Thank you all