How to access double arrays in a cell array?
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Hi everyone,
I have a 1x5 cell array, where each of these 5 columns contains a 20x1 double array.
Now I have the following two questions:
- How can I for instance access from this cell array, the first two rows of all the double array it contains (such that I would ideally end up with a 2x5 array of doubles)?
- Is there any easy way to construct from this cell array a 20x5 array of doubles, where all rows but the i-th are set to zero?
Many many thanks
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Stephen23
on 11 Jun 2016
Edited: Stephen23
on 11 Jun 2016
Here are two solutions to your two tasks. First create some fake data:
>> fun = @()randi(9,20,1);
>> C = {fun(),fun(),fun(),fun(),fun()};
1. first two rows of each numeric array:
>> N = 2; % pick the number of rows
>> cell2mat(cellfun(@(c)c(1:N,:),C,'Uni',0))
ans =
8 6 4 7 4
9 1 4 3 8
2. All rows except the Nth are zero:
>> tmp = cell2mat(C);
>> R = 4; % pick the row
>> tmp(R~=(1:size(tmp,1)),:) = 0
tmp =
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
9 9 8 7 5
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
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