Is there a good way to avoid junking up code with lots of preallocation lines?

I have a specific set of code that has a lot of little projection pieces, each of which I'd like to be preallocated for speed. However, in doing so, you get a lot of lines like this:

 ...
 cash.PaidOut=zeros(n,500);
 cash.PaidIn=zeros(n,500);
 cash.TaxesPaid=zeros(n,500);
 ...

Is there a way to get the same functionality in a more terse style?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

cash = struct('PaidOut', zeros(n,500), 'PaidIn', zero(n,500), 'TaxesPaid', zeros(n,500));

See also structfun()

Answer 2

[Shaun VanWeelden]

You can assign the same value to multiple fields if you want, which I think would help in this case.

[Shaun VanWeelden]

Multiple fields at one time/line if that was not clear before.

[Walter Roberson]

Beware, though, the copy-on-write behavior.

[Michael]

Could you give an example of the syntax? a=b=25 doesn't seem to work.