Converting a cell array into a matrix of stipulated number of columns and rows

Consider I have a cell array containing 4 cells

Each cell containd 'n' elements

Now I want to covert it into an array of size "n*4" where element of each row is take from elements of each cell

If it has tto be more clear for eg: ist row of the matrix contains 4 elements - each element is picked from 1st element of each cell.

I have used the model

for i = 1:numel(W{1})%w is the cell
wid(i,:)=double(cellfun(@(v) v(i),W));
end

But it is taking more time in matlab.So, is there any best and simple solution for this problem which can be simulated in less time?

[Fangjun Jiang]

The code seems unnecessary. Please construct an example with n=2 and explain what is the input and desired output.

[Alex Mcaulley]

Have you tried with cell2mat?

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

Let C - your cell array.

if cells sizes are the same:

out = reshape(cat(2,C{:}),[],4); 

if not the same:

out = cell2mat(cellfun(@(x)x(:),C,'un',0));

Answer 2

[meghannmarie]

wid = [W{1}(:) W{2}(:) W{3}(:) W{4}(:)];