Concatenating matrix with specific cell in cell aray

I have the following 53x2 cell array, organised as follows:

Each cell in the second column is as follows:

For each of these cells, I would like to check if a matrix of numbers is present: j = [2, 48, 17:33]. If the numbers in this matrix are not contained in this cell, I would like to add them.

I thought about something where I concatenate each cell element with the matrix in a loop and then remove duplicates but I am not sure the best way to go about it.

Thank you very much for any help in advance.

[Dyuman Joshi]

Yes, you can use a for loop to go through the cell.

for i=1:size(cellname,1)
    %check if the required elements are present or not
    if all(ismember([2 48 17:33], cellname{i,2}))
        ...
    else
        ...
    end
end

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

C = {'hello',[1,2,5];'world',[3,5]}

C = 2×2 cell array
    {'hello'}    {[1 2 5]}
    {'world'}    {[  3 5]}

V = [4,5];
F = @(a)union(V,a);
C(:,2) = cellfun(F,C(:,2),'uni',0)

C = 2×2 cell array
    {'hello'}    {[1 2 4 5]}
    {'world'}    {[  3 4 5]}