Assignment has more non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts

I have the codes as follows:

function [H1,c,s,path,d,m]=topology1(topo)
if (strcmp(topo,'access'))
    H=zeros(24,18,3);
    H1=zeros(size(H,1),size(H,2),3);
    H1(:,:,1)=H;

When I want to run the function "topology" I encounter to this error:

Assignment has more non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts

Please help me about this issue.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/91151-the-error-assignment-has-more-non-singleton-rhs-dimensions-than-non-singleton-subscripts-when-hap

You are trying to store all of a 3 dimensional object, H, into a 2 dimensional space, H1(:,:,1)

Perhaps you wanted

H1(:,:1) = H(:,:,1);

[hamed]

Thanks a lot. It did work!

[Guillaume]

While "it did work". The code is exactly equivalent to:

H = zeros(24, 18, 3);
H1 = H;

which would be much clearer.