combine cell and multidemensional matrix

Hi. I have a 5x1 cell with names in it ("names") and a 5x1 cell with usage numbers in it ("usage"). Within the "usage" cells are yx4 double values that all differ in length as different time periods are covered. i.e. if I open the first cell within "usage" it is 77x4, the second cell is 140x4, the third 79x4... like so...

Usage

77x4 double

140x4 double

79x4 double

77x4 double

52x4 double

Names

John

Jim

Sam

Tim

Tom

I am trying to make a matrix that has lists of all the values within "usage", but with the name next to each observation. Is there a simple way to achieve this?

[James Tursa]

Please provide a small example of the exact output you desire. E.g., are you after a cell array with all of the rows of the Usage matrices and the Names next to each row? Or what?

[matla6123]

I am after something like the following...

[1 2 3 4 John]

[5 6 7 8 John]

...

and so on for 77 rows and then Jim next to the values for the next 140 rows.

[James Tursa]

You can't combine numeric and character data in a double matrix. For that you would need a cell array or a table. E.g.,

result(1,1) = {[1 2 3 4],'John'}
result(2,1) = {[5 6 7 8],'John'}
   :
  etc

In other words, the first column of the cell array are the rows of your Usage matrices and the second column of the cell array would be the names. Is that acceptable?

[matla6123]

ok thanks for the help.