Converting cell to struct with field names

Hi all,

I have a 12x5 cell that I am trying to convert to a structure. I am trying to use the cell2struct function but to no avail.

Right now I have:

structArray = cell2struct(temp, {'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' 'e'}, 5)

Thank you for your help!

Edit1: The first cell in temp{} is a 1x29 cell and the next 4 columns (2:5) are string values

Edit2: The error I get is "Number of field names must match number of fields in new structure."

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

The 3rd argument is the dimension of the cell array to use for the fields, not the number of fields. You've got 5 field names, so I assume you mean to use the 2nd dimension of your 12x5 cell array for the fields. E.g.,

structArray = cell2struct(temp, {'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' 'e'}, 2)

[Stephen23]

Indeed, this also described in the documentation:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/cell2struct.html

[R J]

Thank you again James. Much appreciated.

I also just came across this solution as well searching the answers:

names = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'}
tempStruc = cell2struct(temp,names,2);