Could I use a dynamic character or string in a for loop to call a variable with different name?

I couldn't figure out the best way to ask this question so apology for the confusing title. Let's say I had multiple variables with different name called var1,var2,var3... with values in each.

Is there a way to access each of the variable in such a way like

for k = 1:10
  variable(k) = (variable%d,k)
end

So that I can access the variables with different names where %d can take on given integer similar to C language? Another way might be if there was a variable called GreenEggs&Ham and I want to access it like

A = 'GreenEggs'
B = 'Ham'
BreakFast = (%s&%s,A,B);

[Oleg Komarov]

Avoid creating var1, ..., var# in the first place!

[Stephen23]

Although this answer has already been accepted, avoid using eval and do not create dynamically named variables:

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

Answer 1

[Andrew Reibold]

Use eval , Its really easy! Reads a string as a variable.

Here is an example. Using the base 'var', I increment the variable number and get the data from each one.

var1 = 10
var2 = 20
var3 = 50

for i = 1:3
   variables(i) = eval(['var',num2str(i)])
end

[Andrew Reibold]

Output:

variables =

      10    20    50

[Yuki Himekawa]

You're right, it made my life so much easier! I can probably use it for much more applications in future too, thanks!

[José-Luis]

Using eval is generally a bad idea and should be avoided when possible.