Matlab: renaming workspace elements from command window?

Question

The GUI of Matlab allows me to rename any element in the workspace by right-clicking on the element and selecting the 'rename' option. Is it possible to do this from the command window as well?

Solution

You can rename variables in the command window as follows:

%# create a variable
a = 3;

%# rename a to b
b = a;clear('a');

EDIT

If you want to rename your variable to another variable stored in a string, you can use ASSIGNIN

a = 3;
newVarName = 'b';
assignin('base',newVarName,a);
clear('a') %# in case you want to get rid of the variable a