outputname of variable depending on inputname

Hello everybody,

I wrote a function which smoothes data and I did it as general as possible, in order to that I renamed the input data to X:

function [] = Curvesmoothing(filename, curvename, range)
%% load data

X = load(filename, curvename);
X = X.(curvename);

...calculations
    

Xsmooth = [smoothedX]

But now I don't want to save the result with this meaningless name, but rather with its inputname and the information how many circumjacent values were used for the smoothing, i.e. curvename + "smooth" + range. And this into the origin file, because I want to be able to feed the function with data, undependent of its origin. Now is my Question how I get Matlab to rename Xsmooth into a specific name, depending on other variables.

e.g. I tried to do it by creating a structure, similiar to my approach above, but I ended up with a structure named S, which contains the array (with the right name & data), but I could not figure out how to extract this array (see below).

Q = curvename + "smooth" + range;
S.(Q) = Xsmooth; 
save(filename, curvename + "smooth" + range , '-append')

I also already figured out how to specify the filename, but I don't want to create too many .mat files, in order to keep some tidiness in my data.

Best Regards

Fabian

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

utilize inputname()

[Fabian Jakobs]

could you may clarify that? I cannot see how to use the function in my context

[Fangjun Jiang]

there are examples in "doc inputname"