create a cell array with incrementing values

how to create a cell with values like

a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 ........ a25

i need to get the above values into a row cell array and column cell array

do i need for loop or is there a simple way

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

regexp(cellstr(sprintf('a%d ',1:25)),' ','split')

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/304528-tutorial-why-variables-should-not-be-named-dynamically-eval

[madhan ravi]

Another option:

sprintfc('a%d',1:25) % beware, undocumented!