cell2mat returns an error

Hi.

I have a large 11000x1 cell array with string values that seems to look something like this in the variables window:

A = {'600'; '400'; '200'; '800'; '600'; '700'}

When I use

cell2mat(A)

I get an error message that says:

Error using cat
Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent.

Error in cell2mat (line 84)
            m{n} = cat(1,c{:,n});

I know the cell array can't be the same as Array 'A' of this example, because I tried it with Array 'A' in the workspace and it worked. I can't find any difference in the variables windows, though.

Here are the propertys

>> whos curr_ch1
    Name              Size               Bytes  Class    Attributes

    curr_ch1      113283x1             13474862  cell

Any idea what could be the problem?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A= {'600'; '400'; '200'; '800'; '600'; '700'}
cellfun(@str2double,A)

[Marc Jakobi]

Thanks. That did it!

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

Just:

str2double(A)