Data that is stored in a cell array can be processed in several ways
depending on the actual data. The simplest way to process that data
is to iterate through it using one or more for
loops. The same
idea can be implemented more easily through the use of the cellfun
function that calls a user-specified function on all elements of a cell
array. See doc-cellfun.
An alternative is to convert the data to a different container, such as
a matrix or a data structure. Depending on the data this is possible
using the cell2mat
and cell2struct
functions.
Convert the cell array c into a matrix by concatenating all elements of c into a hyperrectangle. Elements of c must be numeric, logical or char matrices, or cell arrays, and
cat
must be able to concatenate them together.
Convert cell to a structure. The number of fields in fields must match the number of elements in cell along dimension dim, that is
numel (
fields) == size (
cell,
dim)
. If dim is omitted, a value of 1 is assumed.A = cell2struct ({'Peter', 'Hannah', 'Robert'; 185, 170, 168}, {'Name','Height'}, 1); A(1) ⇒ ans = { Name = Peter Height = 185 }