How do I concatenate two matrices into alternating rows?

I have two 2x4 matrices (actual matrices I'm using are much bigger than this in both dimensions), say

[1,2,3,4;5,6,7,8] and [a,b,c,d;e,f,g,h]

and I want to combine them so that I get

[1,2,3,4;a,b,c,d;5,6,7,8;e,f,g,h]

I've tried to do this using the reshape function but haven't managed to get it to do what I want. Is this the best function to use?

Answer 1

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A = rand(2,4) ; 
B = rand(2,4) ; 
C(1:2:4,:) = A ; 
C(2:2:4,:) = B ;