How to first form a variable and then assign values to it?

My variable can be anything like the below:

if case1
   Var = Temperature
elseif case2
   Var = Pressure
elseif case3
   Var = Oxygen
...
end

I need to be able to assign a column data to whether Temperature, or Pressure, or Oxygen, etc., depending on the cases. For example, if Var = temperature, I want my table column be like this:

Temperature = [1; 5; 3; 7; etc.];

How do I use "Var" to write the code, so that it will do things like above?

Many thanks.

Answer 1

[Sudhakar Shinde]

Switch ..case can be one option.

Var='Temperature';

switch Var
    case 'Temperature'
        Temperature=[1; 5; 3; 7];
        T = table(Temperature);
    case 'Pressure'
         Pressure=[1; 5; 3; 7];
        T = table(Pressure);
    case 'Oxygen'
         Oxy=[1; 5; 3; 7];
        T = table(Oxy);
end

[Leon]

Thanks, but my real world solution is way more complicated. Under each of the case, I would have hundreds of lines of code repeating.

What I really hope to get is one way to specify this Variable, so that I do not need to repeat those same lines of code over and over.