How to get data from variables that change the name?

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I have the variables day1,day2,day3....day15. I want to get the data of each variable within a loop. How I can do it?
Thank you in advance
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 13 Jan 2017
Edited: Stephen23 on 13 Jan 2017
@Kelly Kyriakou: read this carefully:
Learn to use indexing rather than make lots of separate variables. Then your life suddenly gets better :)
Kelly Kyriakou
Kelly Kyriakou on 13 Jan 2017
Thank you very much. Indeed being a beginner at matlab the idea of indexing is not well-established in my mind.

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John Chilleri
John Chilleri on 13 Jan 2017
Hello,
A simple solution would be:
Days = [day1 day2 day3 ... day15];
Then call Days(:,i) for the ith days data if it's a vector (assuming column vectors), or just Days(i) if it's a scalar.
Hope this helps!

Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 13 Jan 2017
The "data of each variable" and the variable itself are one and the same thing. Just assign it to another variable if you want, or just start using it.
someOtherVariable = day1;
someOtherVariable2 = day2 * pi * log(42);
someOtherVariable3 = day5 * cos(day12) + day9;
result = SomeFunction(day7);
and so on. You don't need to do anything special to the variable to access it's "data". The variable and its data are the very same thing.

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