How can I incorporate a user input variable as part of a variable name?

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Jonathan Harris 2012-8-15

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Hi,

I am currently writing code that automates radiographic measurements from a point cloud generated by 3D reconstruction software. Currently the files are saved as [patient initials]_left_rib_1.txt with the number changing for each rib point cloud. The code inputs the txt files and processes the data, recording measurements and outputting various graphs.

Ex: JH_left_rib_1.txt JH_left_rib_2.txt ...

What I would like to do write a function where the user input is the specific patient's initials. Thus, the specific files that the code imports would be dictated by the user input.

Ex: import_txt('XY')

Then the XY would be used as the initials section of the files called by the program...

importdata('xy'_left_ribs_1.txt) ... etc.

Is this possible? Is there a better way around this? The idea is that I could run my code on several patients and this would bypass the need to create input m file for each patient, specifying each patient's initials for each turn.

Thanks