merge multiple cells in only one

Hi! How can I merge these two cells?

Final results:

[Dyuman Joshi]

@Alberto Acri, just a note - Posting screenshots of code or data is not helpful.

You should attach the code or data with the question.

Also, mentioning the final output is helpful as well. Make it easy for us to help you solve your problem.

With the given info, the obvious "merging" to me is to convert value1 to a 1x1 cell and vertically concate with value2.

[Alberto Acri]

Hi @Dyuman Joshi! I've updated my question with file and final result!

[Stephen23]

@Alberto Acri: note that storing scalar strings in cell arrays is very inefficient, and it avoids all of the benefits of using string arrays. You should be using string arrays, just as the documentation recommends:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-string-arrays.html

Answer 1

[Dyuman Joshi]

As you want the final result to be a 4x1 cell array -

mat1 = load('value1.mat');
value1 = mat1.value1;
mat2 = load('value2.mat');
value2 = mat2.value2;

out1 = vertcat({value1},value2)

out1 = 4×1 cell array
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}

In case you want to store them as 4x6 as well -

out2 = vertcat(value1,vertcat(value2{:}))

out2 = 4×6 cell array
    {["54"]}    {["55"]}    {["56"]}    {["57"]}    {["58"]}    {["59"]}
    {["60"]}    {["61"]}    {["62"]}    {["63"]}    {["64"]}    {["65"]}
    {["66"]}    {["67"]}    {["68"]}    {["69"]}    {["70"]}    {["71"]}
    {["72"]}    {["73"]}    {["74"]}    {["75"]}    {["76"]}    {["77"]}

[Alberto Acri]

Thanks for the help @Dyuman Joshi. I will use 'out1'. May I ask you how to automatically extract and rename the cell contained in 'out1' with the name 'variable_1', 'variable_2',....?

For example, doing it manually, I would like to obtain this:

mat1 = load('value1.mat');
value1 = mat1.value1;
mat2 = load('value2.mat');
value2 = mat2.value2;
out1 = vertcat({value1},value2)

variable_1 = out1{1,1};
variable_2 = out1{2,1};
variable_3 = out1{3,1};
variable_4 = out1{4,1};

[Dyuman Joshi]

Dynamically naming variables is not recommended - Why Variables Should Not Be Named Dynamically.

Store the data in an array and use indexing to access the data -

mat1 = load('value1.mat');
value1 = mat1.value1;
mat2 = load('value2.mat');
value2 = mat2.value2;
out1 = vertcat({value1},value2)

out1 = 4×1 cell array
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}
    {1×6 cell}

variable = vertcat(out1{:})

variable = 4×6 cell array
    {["54"]}    {["55"]}    {["56"]}    {["57"]}    {["58"]}    {["59"]}
    {["60"]}    {["61"]}    {["62"]}    {["63"]}    {["64"]}    {["65"]}
    {["66"]}    {["67"]}    {["68"]}    {["69"]}    {["70"]}    {["71"]}
    {["72"]}    {["73"]}    {["74"]}    {["75"]}    {["76"]}    {["77"]}

Here, variable_k will correspond to the kth row of variable.

[Alberto Acri]

ok!