how to name a figure using a variable name

I have a figure and want to save this as a tiff or jpeg I have changed a date into variable = 'van190392 15' which I want to use in the file name Such that I get as filename;van190392 15.tiff or van190392 15.jpeg I get an error message, it seems not being allowed/possible

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What is not working?

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

variable = 'van190392 15';

figure
plot(rand(3,4))

filename = [variable,'.tif'];
print('-dtiff',filename)

[the cyclist]

Moved Johannes comment from an "answer" to here. He wrote,

"Thanks for the help, functions great"

[Image Analyst]

A related note: To get a figure to have a name you want, instead of like "Figure 1", "Figure 2", etc., you can turn the 'NumberTitle' property 'Off' and set the 'name' property of the figure to a literal string or a string variable:

% Give a name to the title bar/figure.
set(gcf, 'Name', 'Demo by ImageAnalyst', 'NumberTitle', 'Off')