Get filename from Edit text in Matlab? - matlab

Question

I want to write the file name in the gui edit text and save edit text as my filename. Than I could be able to save filename as I wish. For instance; My file is an Neural network file which could be save as *.mat file; here is my code
%network_name is my edit text
name = get(handles.network_name,'string');
name = net;
save name
But it doesn't work I can't manage file name from edit text :(
It saves as name that l wrote next to save (name.mat). Thanks for your any answer...

Answer 1

Why name = net;?
That aside, if you want to pass the filename as a variable to the save function, you need to use this syntax instead:
save(name)
save name is the "command form", and save('name') is the corresponding "function form". As you can see you can only give string inputs when using command form, whilst you actually want to pass a variable.
To conclude: if you are passing variables to a function, use function form.
If you want to save particular variables, use:
save(name,'net');
Note that name (which we want to be the string contained in the variable) isn't in quotes and net (the name of the variable we want to save) is.
A warning about this is actually buried in the documentation for save.
Do not use command form when any of the inputs, such as filename,
are variables.

Answer 2

save name
will save all of the variables in your workspace to a *.mat file called 'name'
Also your code is basically overwriting itself, line 2 sets the variable name to be a string, but then line 3 writes some data net to that variable.
I'm a little confused as to exactly what you want but I think you want to save the variable net to a mat file with the name that you read in the string from get(handles.network_name,'string')
If that is what you want to do then its just
save(get(handles.network_name,'string'), net)
If you want to save all the open variabile in the workspace then its just
save(get(handles.network_name,'string'))