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Re: why does a cell look different when it is a field in a struct?
Posted:
Dec 5, 2012 1:22 PM
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" wrote in message <k9ngld$fsc$1@speranza.aioe.org>...
> Matlab 2012a
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> I am not good with cells. but this is strange:
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> ---------------------
> clear all;
> A = {'A' 'a';'B' 'c'};
> s = struct('data',{A(:,1)'});
> ------------------------
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> Now I typed:
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> -----------------
> r1 = {A(:,1)'}
> r2 = s.data
> -----------------
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> Isn't the above 2 variable supposed to contain the same thing?
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> But see:
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> r1 =
> {1x2 cell}
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> r2 =
> 'A' 'B'
> ---------------------
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> I am confused now. Why are they different?
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> --Nasser
This has something to do with how the struct function handles cell arrays as inputs. It's basically peeling off that cell that you are putting around A(:,1)'. Note that A(:,1)' is already a cell array, so there's normally no need to put {} around it... but the way the struct function works you need the extra { } to tell it that you want to make a scalar structure (instead of distributing each cell of A to a different index of a non-scalar structure).
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