Re: Looping over two equal length cell arrays?

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> fre, 30 04 2010 kl. 22:54 +0000, skrev fork:
>   
> > This is what I want to do:
> >
> > s = struct()
> > keys = {'a', 'b', 'c'}
> > vals = {1,2,3}
> > for k = keys, v = vals
> >     s = setfield(s, k, v);
> > endfor
> > s.a == 1
> >     
>
> I'm not sure if this syntax is nicer, but here it goes anyway:
>
>         keys = {'a', 'b', 'c'};
>         vals = {1, 2, 3};
>         va = cell (1, 2*numel (keys));
>         va (1:2:end) = keys;
>         va (2:2:end) = vals;
>         s = struct (va {:});
>
>   
You can simplify that to

keys = {'a', 'b', 'c'};
vals = {1, 2, 3};
s = struct ([keys; vals]{:});

though if you are unsure of the orientation of the cell arrays the last 
line might need to be

s = struct ([keys(:)'; vals(:)']{:});


D.