Cell array inside a cell array

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Sérgio Querido
Sérgio Querido on 5 Oct 2017
Edited: Cedric on 6 Oct 2017
I have a cell array
dataArray={[10x1 double] {10x1 cell} [10x1 double] [10x1 double]}
and I tried to obtain an output as follows:
test[dataArray{1:end-1}]
Error using horzcat
Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent.

Answers (1)

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Oct 2017
Your desired output is not at all clear.
temp = [num2cell(dataArray{1}), dataArray{2}, num2cell(horzcat(dataArray{3:end}))];
guess_at_your_desired_output = cell2mat(temp);
This requires that all of the cells within dataArray{2} have one row and the same number of columns.
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Cedric
Cedric on 5 Oct 2017
Edited: Cedric on 6 Oct 2017
If names do not contain single quotes:
dataArray{2} = strrep( dataArray{2}, '''', '' ) ;
Seeing Walter's comment below, I realize that I may have misunderstood. I thought that you had imported quoted names, not that it was an issue of display (?)
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 5 Oct 2017
In order to remove the quote marks, you would need to reformat the table as pure text.
Alternately, you would need to override the toolbox/matlab/datatypes/@tabular/disp.m routine to force tables to be displayed the way you want.
MATLAB table objects are objects for data storage, not objects for pretty display. They display as they do in order to emphasize the data types, just like character strings in cell arrays display the quotes too.

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