how to view contents of cell arrays of different size

Hi All,

I am trying to view the contents of the cells in a cell(z1)/table that I have made which has is 1by4 in size:

z1 =

    [7173x1 double]    [6974x1 double]    [7042x1 double]    [7040x1 double]

I have used z1{:}, only opens up the last column [7040*1] and cellfun(@(a)disp(a), z1); does the same as z1{:}.

Is there a way to have all four elements in z1 displayed?

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

celldisp(z1)

[Matthew]

Hi , I used the command you mentioned but this won't open up in the object browser screen i still see the same size dimensions in each cell, do you know if there is a way to open each element in z1 without double clicking on the cells

Answer 2

[José-Luis]

I am afraid it is not going to happen automagically, or without delving into the guts of the IDE. You could save every cell to a new variable:

test = [{rand(10)} {rand(10)} {rand(10)} {rand(10)}]
[a,b,c,d] = test{:}

Then just click on a,b,c, and d. You could even create dynamic names for every variable. However, I strongly recommend against that. You are probably better-off clicking.

If you think this should be a feature, you could always contact the Mathworks.

EDIT

Alternatively, you could pad your arrays to make them all the same size, transform your cell into a numerical matrix, cell2mat(), and look at everything at the same time then.