How to save cell array of workspace vars into mat?

If I have some variables in the base workspace, and a cell array of their names e.g. vars = {'A', 'B', 'C}, how can I use the save function to stores them to a mat? This doesn't work:

save('test.mat', vars)

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

save('test.mat', vars{:})

How it works:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/comma-separated-lists.html

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1656435-tutorial-comma-separated-lists-and-how-to-use-them