Switch elements of the 2nd and 3d dimension in 3D matrix

Consider a 3D array of dimensions i X j X k in the form:

Which is formed by repeating the i X j matrix for k times. I would like to switch the elements without using a loop to have a new iXkXj matrix of the form:

Answer 1

[michio]

Have you tried permute function? http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/permute.html I am guessing

B = permute(A,[1,3,2])

would do the job, where A is your original 3D matrix.