Re: initialising a cell array using an array

[Francesco Potorti`]

I answer myself:

>I have this code:
>
>  speeds=[1, 2, 5.5, 11];      # Available speeds
>
>    choices=cell();            # create a menu of available speeds
>    for i = 1:length(speeds)
>      choices{i} = sprintf("%g Mb/s", speeds(i));
>    endfor
>    sel = menu("Nominal speeds:", choices{:});
>
>In order to create the argument list for menu, I use a cell array.  But
>initialising the cell array needs a loop.  Can I vectorise the loop?

Yes, if you do like this:

    choices = concat(num2str(speeds'), repmat(" Mb/s",size(speeds')));
    sel = menu("Nominal speeds:", cellstr(choices){:});

Are there better ways?

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