assign vector to cell

I have a vector k, whose length is N.

I have created an empty cell(N,M)=New

Is there a clever way to assign the values of the vector to the first column of the cell? I mean something whose outcome is the same as

for j=1:N
  New{j,1}=k(j)
end

Thanks

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

 New(:,1) = num2cell(k)

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-cell-array.html

Answer 2

[Jos (10584)]

num2cell is just the loop you wrote hidden behind a function. Nothing to gain there, I would say.

Just for fun, you could also abuse arrayfun:

k = 10:10:100 
C = arrayfun(@(x) x, k, 'un',0)

Answer 3

[Andrei Bobrov]

New = num2cell(k)