Change variable's names with one character?

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pauldjn
pauldjn on 5 Jan 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 5 Jan 2020
Hi. Suppose I have these variables:
a=1
b=2
c=3
And I want to change their names by adding the number assigned here:
x = 1
So I will have:
a1= 1
b1= 2
c1= 3
Is possible to do that without a loop?
Thanks
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 5 Jan 2020
Edited: Stephen23 on 5 Jan 2020
There are certainly ways to do this, if you want to force yourself into writing slow, complex, buggy code that is hard to debug:
Much better is to learn how to use arrays and indexing, just like experienced MATLAB users. Indexing is neat, simple, easy to debug and very efficient. Unlike what you are trying to do.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 5 Jan 2020
Edited: Image Analyst on 5 Jan 2020
Yes
a1 = a;
b1 = b;
c1 = c;
x is unneeded, as per this answer: Click here
Note though that a1 and a do not refer to the same memory location so changing a1 will not automatically change a, and changing a will not automatically change a1.
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pauldjn
pauldjn on 5 Jan 2020
Thanks for your answer, though this solution is aplicable for the 3 variables I'm actually looking a way to do it for dozen of variables, thats why I used x=1 so if I changed x I can use it to modify multiple variable names at once.

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