transform duration into some visible in the table

Hello,

i got a cell array which is on the picture shown.

In this array is 'duration' shown and not the value. Why this happend and how can i avoid this problem?

Thank you for help!

Answer 1

[Ollie A]

Duration just refers to the format of the data stored in each cell array.

You could convert your cell to a table, which might handle your data in a format you prefer:

T = cell2table(yourcell);

Or you could try extracting each cell and converting it to the duration in seconds:

for x = 1:length(yourcell)
    M(x) = seconds(yourcell{x});
end

I hope this helps!

[Tom Bedkowski]

Yes thank you!

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

You have a cell array, each cell of which contains a scalar duration. That explains the Variable Editor display you are seeing. You should figure out how you got there, because that's not a good way to store durations. You certainly can create a table out of that, but more fundamentally, you should just create a duration vector. Here's the best way to do that:

>> c = {seconds(1); seconds(2); seconds(3)}
c =
  3×1 cell array
    {[1 sec]}
    {[2 sec]}
    {[3 sec]}
>> d = vertcat(c{:})
d = 
  3×1 duration array
   1 sec
   2 sec
   3 sec