How to convert a each column of a cell array to an array in matlab

Question

I have a cell array C looks like:

   start        end
  -------      --------
     a           b
     c           d
     d           a

I need to generate two arrays s=[a,c,d] and t=[b,d,a] from C.

Can you tell me how I can do it in Matlab?

Suever · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-11 18:49:38Z

1

If you have a cell array you can simply grab each column and convert to an array using cellmat

A = cellmat(C(:,1));
B = cellmat(C(:,2));

If the contents of each cell element is non-scalar, you'll need to leave them as a cell, so you'll want to simply use () indexing

A = C(:,1);
B = C(:,2);

However, it looks like you actually have a table in which case you can reference the columns directly

A = C.start;
B = C.end;

answered Apr 11, 2017 at 18:49

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