How do I turn two columns into one row?

My data looks like this:

a 1

b 2

c 3

d 4

etc.

I want it to look like this:

a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4

How do I get it into this format?

[Rik]

The exact method depends on your exact data format. Please provide some code that generates an example of your input data and describe in Matlab syntax how your output should look.

[Sean Hiddleston]

If it's relevant, the data is currently sitting in a .dat file, ready to be imported.

[Sean Hiddleston]

Hi Rik, thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I am very new to Matlab and I don't know how to do that. Here is what I'm looking at:

If that's enough to work with, I would be very grateful. If you need more information than I'm able to provide right now, I completely understand.

[Sean Hiddleston]

I only want VarName5 and VarName7, the rest doesn't matter for now.

Answer 1

[David Hill]

If a cell array,

a={'a' 1;'b' 2;'c' 3;'d' 4};
b=a';
c=b(:)';%should give up the cell array in the format you desire

[Sean Hiddleston]

That worked perfectly, thank you!