element wise concatenation of square matrices

Hi, I have the following two square matrices:

A=
    17    24     1    
    23    65     7
     4     6    13   

B=
    18    27    35    
     2     5     8
     4    16    11

I want to concatenate the elements of matrices A and B to form a cell C such that:

C= <17,18> <24,27> <1,35>
   <23,2> <65,5> <7,8>
   <4,4> <6,16> <13,11>

Please help. (I want to avoid using for loop)

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

n=numel(A)
out=arrayfun(@(x) [A(x) B(x)],1:n,'un',0)

[zozo]

@Azzi, Thank you. But I want both the elements as a string in a cell. In your solution, if I go inside each cell, I see the elements as a row vector of size (1x2). I want both the elements to be concatenated in a single dimension. The final cell should also be of size C 3x3.

Please help

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What do you mean: as a string? '1718'? or what?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

out=arrayfun(@(x) num2str([A(x) B(x)]),1:n,'un',0)

[zozo]

Yes..Like

17 18  24 27  1 35
23 2   65 5    7 8
4 4    6 16   13 11

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Ok, what about

out=arrayfun(@(x,y) num2str([x y]),A,B,'un',0)

Answer 2

[Thorsten]

Like this?

C = arrayfun(@(x) ['<' num2str(A(x)) ',' num2str(B(x)) '>'], 1:numel(A), 'un', 0);
C = reshape(C, [3 3]);

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

cellfun(@squeeze,num2cell(cat(3,A,B),3),'Uni',false)

Answer 4

[zozo]

This is what I wanted.

A=magic(3);
B=magic(3);
C = arrayfun(@(x) [num2str(A(x)) ' ' num2str(B(x))],1:numel(A), 'un', 0);
Z=reshape(C,3,3)

Thanks for your help! Azzi, Thorsten, Sean. :-)

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

out=arrayfun(@(x,y) num2str([x y]),A,B,'un',0)

[zozo]

Thanks Azzi !!