Creating a cell array

Hi, I was wondering how to create a cell array that will hold two strings and an integer, such that

file_name=input('Please enter the file name: ', 's');
file_author=input('Please enter the file author: ', 's');
no_pages=input('Please enter the number of pages in the file: ');

and the cell array would then become as below with the first two entries as strings and the last entry (no_pages) is a double.

{file_name,file_author,no_pages}

and then how I could add downwards to this so that it would become

{file_name,file_author,no_pages;file_name,file_author,no_pages}

Where the second row is a new file with new information and I can keep adding books into this array in this manner?

Cheers, any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

[KSSV]

N = 10 ;
Books = cell(N,1) ;
for i = 1:N
    file_name=input('Please enter the file name: ', 's');
    file_author=input('Please enter the file author: ', 's');
    no_pages=input('Please enter the number of pages in the file: ');
    Books{i} = {file_name,file_author,no_pages} ;
end

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Simpler using direct allocation, and does not return nested cell arrays:

N = 10 ;
C = cell(N,3) ;
for k = 1:N
    C{k,1} = input('Please enter the file name: ', 's');
    C{k,2} = input('Please enter the file author: ', 's');
    C{k,3} = input('Please enter the number of pages in the file: ', 's');
end
C(:,3) = str2double(C(:,3));

Using the 's' option does not evaluate whatever input the user gives, and so it much more secure, the str21double simply converts these numbers (as strings) to numeric.