solution for sequentially concatenating matrices

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a simple function to concatenate 2 matrices of same dimensions so that:

A=[ a c ]
  [ b d ]

B=[ e g ]
  [ f h ]

when concatenated it follows first column of A, then first column of B, second column of A, second column of B:

C=[a e c g]
  [b f d h]

I can do it with a for loop, however I was wondering whether there was a more elegant way to do it?

Thanks

[Thomas]

are you cat'ing string/numeric values? can you give an example with numbers?

[Pablo]

Yes, numbers are being concatenated, I think the solution below is the simplest one. However - I still need to place them within a cell matrix (that has column and row headers).

So for example --

D %cell matrix same size as A or B, where each cell will correspond to the merged values of C.

For example,

A=[ 1 3 ] [ 2 4 ]

B=[ 5 7 ] [ 6 8 ]

C=[1 5 3 7] [2 6 4 8]

And in the Cell matrix D: D {1,:}= column headers D{:,1}= row headers

and therefore: D {2,2} = [1 5] D{3,4} = [4 8]

Does this make sense?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

C = reshape(vertcat(A,B), size(A,1), []);

Answer 2

[Pablo]

Actually, I think the solution would be:

C(:,1:2:columns*2)=A; C(:,2:2:columns*2)=B;