Any trick to name a variable with decimal number?

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Zeynab Mousavikhamene 2019-12-3

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评论： Guillaume 2019-12-3

I noticed that decimal number cant be used as the name of variable like "trd_0.45". Any trirck to solve the issue? I prefer to have it as it is and not convert it to integer.

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Zeynab Mousavikhamene 2019-12-3

@Guillaume

Would you please explain why it is bad? I was thinking it will reduce the chance of making mistake when there are thousands of files. In my example, 0.45 is the most importatnt data to indicate the content of the file.

Guillaume 2019-12-3

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Embedding properties in variable names is always a bad idea. it prevents from doing any manipulation based on the value of that property. E.g. what if you want to look at all the files for which the property is between 0.4 and 0.5, how do you do that when it's embedded in the variable name? Instead if you embed it as a property of a structure:

%get all trd whose important property (whatever that is) is in the range [0.4, 0.5):
filteredtrd = trd([trd.yourimportantproperty] >= 0.4 & [trd.yourimportantproperty] < 0.5);

Or what if you want to process each of these trd one by one with the same function. Since they all have different variable names, you can't loop over them. Separate the variable name from the property and it's as simple as:

for i = 1:numel(trd)
    result = dosomething(trd(i));  
end

There are many ways to store properties (fields of a structure, separate variable, containers.map), all better than storing it in the variable names. Which way you store these properties depend on exactly what you're trying to do.

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