Extract individual numbers from a list

Hi there, As shown below I have a shortened version of a list of values belonging to p.

p =

     2
     3
     3
     3
     4
     3
     3
     4
     3
     3
     4

What I would like to do is extract each of the numbers from this list one by one. I know that I can make use of the functions below in order to extract each value one by one. However this would make for a very long code. Is there a way that this can be done in type of loop?

 z = p(1,1)
 z2 = p(2,1)
 z3 = p(3,1)

Answer 1

[Jos (10584)]

Do not do this!

It is the contents of a variable that should change, not the name of the variable itself. An example in real life, you hardly ever need to buy a new box if you buy new cookies. In matlab you can use indexing in your list to get a specific element:

MyBoxes = [10 11 12 13] ; % list of cookie types in each box
BoxToUse = 3 
CurrentCookie = MyBoxes(BoxToUse)