Rerun script with different table input

Hey,

I wrote quite a long script, that uses table data, like so:

Location = table1.Location;

Is there a way to replace "table1" in all lines of the script and replace it e.g. with table2? To get:

Location = table2.Location;

Additionally I'm relying on tablesizes in my script (probably not a good way to do that) but I manually entered e.g.:

sh(1:2734) = sh;

where (1:2734) represents the table size. Is there a way to have the following?

sh("tablesize") = sh

Thanks for your help!

[EmirBeg]

As David already said try to index your code.

Anyways, if you want to change the name of a variable in the whole script once (maybe because you simply just want another name for it), you can also just change the name and then you will see that a little message like this pops up.

By pressing Shift and Enter Matlab changes every variable in the code for you. It's the same as the old fashioned Ctrl+F - Find & Replace.

Maybe it will be helpful one day.

[Lukas Netzer]

Hey Emir,

thanks for your response, this is actually something I need right now but I do not get that pop-up when replacing table1 with t{n}.. Maybe I can do it with one of those options? -->:

[Lukas Netzer]

Allready got it! I did it with find and replace ;))

Answer 1

[David Hill]

You should always attempt to index. Put all your tables into a single cell array.

t{1}=table1;
t{2}=table2;
%then index into t
n=2;
Location=t{n}.Location;
sh(size(t{n}))=sh;%not sure what you are using this for, but size() gives the size of the table

[Lukas Netzer]

Thanks a lot David!!