Programmatically change function input

Hi, I'm working on a function that will build a synchronized timetable based on a varying number of data streams. The function organizes that data into a cell array, and then feed those cells are fed into the synchronize function.

Here's a chunklet of the code:

for i=1:length(synccell)
    catstring=sprintf('synccell{%u}',i);
    fncstr=strcat(fncstr,catstring,',');
end
finalstr=strcat(fncstr,"'regular','next','TimeStep',seconds(.05))");
tt=synchronize(finalstr)
writetimetable(tt,'Synchronized.csv');

Obviously, this doesn't work because I can't just use a string as a function input.

What are my options here?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Using a character vector is entirely the wrong approach. The correct approach is to use a comma-separated list:

tt = synchronize(synccell{:},'regular','next','TimeStep',seconds(.05));
%                ^^^^^^^^^^^ comma-separated list from cell array

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

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/320713-how-to-operate-on-comma-separated-lists

[Alex Browning]

I knew I was missing something obvious. This worked perfectly. Thank you.