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Topic: sorting arrays in a cell array
Replies: 23   Last Post: Nov 15, 2012 11:16 AM

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Bruce Elliott

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Re: sorting arrays in a cell array
Posted: Nov 14, 2012 3:53 PM
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"Steven_Lord" <slord@mathworks.com> wrote in message >
> For such a small problem, if you preallocate firstElementsOfEachCell, using
> the FOR loop to extract the first elements of each cell would probably be
> more efficient (CELLFUN being a much bigger hammer than you need) and easier
> to read.

Exactly right. As it happens, there are other benefits to an explicit FOR loop in this particular case, so that's what I'm doing. The CELLFUN approach is still a good one to keep in mind for future problems, though.

Bruce

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