Programming

Generating a List from a Structure

For structures, extracting a field of the structure that exists across one of its dimensions yields a comma-separated list.

Start by converting the cell array used above into a 4-by-1 MATLAB structure with six fields: f1 through f6. Read field f5 for all rows and MATLAB returns a comma-separated list:

• S = cell2struct(C, {'f1', 'f2', 'f3', 'f4', 'f5', 'f6'}, 2);
  
  S.f5
  ans =
      34
  ans =
      36
  ans =
      38
  ans =
      40
  

This is the same as explicitly typing

• S(1).f5, S(2).f5, S(3).f5, S(4).f5

Comma-Separated Lists

How to Use the Comma-Separated List

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