How to create a for loop

How can i create a for loop that will give me seperate column vectors. I have a row vector, which i want to be the end values of the column vectors. Due to the data being loaded there will be varying values in the row vector and this is why i have used the command to determine c. I have defined the variable xstart to be a row vector containing just 0's for the same amount of columns as xend has. Therefore i have starting and finished values. I need to get the output of the for loop to be x1=[], x2=[], ... , xc=[]

So far my script looks like:

x=input('define independant variable (put in ''):');

y=input('define variable to be smoothed (put in ''):');

%These two lines as user to define the variables x and y based on the %data they have in their workspace

[r,c]=size(x);

%determines how many rows (r) and columns (c) are in matrix x

xend=x(end,:);

%creates a vector which contains only the final row in matrix x (this %should be the final time recording for the viable cell count)

xstart=zeros(1,c);

for n=1:c;

    *xn=(xstart(1,n):0.5:xend(1,n))';*

end

Thank you

Answer 1

[Jan]

It is a bad idea to create a bunch of variables with an index hidden in the name. Using komplicated methods to create variables dynamically demands for other complivated methods to access them later. So better use an array with an index to create a bunch of data:

x = cell(1, c);
for n=1:c
  x{n} = xstart(1,n):0.5:xend(1,n))';
end

Now x is a cell array and accessing them is fast, nice and easy.