How to define numerical variable names in a loop

I have a variable with dimension 44 x 59 which I would like to display in a table. I want the row names to be years from 1979 to 2022, and variable names to be days in January and February (skipping the leap year), in a format of 1/1, 1/2.... ending in 2/28. How do I define the row names and variable names for this particular case?

[Torsten]

Why do you want to give a name to each single matrix element ?

[Tasi]

The values of the array represent January and February values for a period of 1979-2022.

[Torsten]

And what's the problem if you use M(i,j,k) for the i'th day in the j'th month of the k'th year, e.g. ?

[Tasi]

I was trying various ways to define them in a loop but unsuccessfully,

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

jan_names = "1/" + (1:31);
feb_names = "2/" + (1:28);
varnames = [jan_names, feb_names];
rownames = string(1979:1979+size(YourArray,1)-1);

T = array2table(YourArray, 'VariableNames', varnames, 'RowNames', rownames);

[Tasi]

Thank you.