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Re: trouble indexing cell array


From: c.
Subject: Re: trouble indexing cell array
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:15:13 +0100

On 5 Nov 2012, at 01:09, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Tim Meehan wrote:
> 
>> I'm having a strange problem shown below. I want to take a subset of a cell 
>> array and save it as a new variable. I can index the subset just fine, but 
>> when I try to save the subset into a new variable, it saves as only one 
>> element in the array. I'm mystified, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>> 
>> octave:326> filenames{2:10}
>> ans = _L_V1d.mat
>> ans = _L_V1v_vox.mat
>> ans = _L_V2d.mat
>> ans = _L_V2v_vox.mat
>> ans = _L_V3.mat
>> ans = _L_V3A_dors.mat
>> ans = _L_V3A_vox.mat
>> ans = _L_V4_vox.mat
>> ans = _L_VP_vox.mat
>> octave:327> test = filenames{2:10}
>> test = _L_V1d.mat
> 
> Add a set of curly brackets around the cs-list
> 
>       test = {filenames{2:10}}
> 
> Ben

Or use parenthesis for indexing instead of curly braces:

test = filenames(2:10)

HTH,
c.

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