Expected one output from a curly brace or dot indexing expression, but there were 4 results.

Im not sure what im doing wrong. I wanted to assign those arrays to the first row and first column of the 5x5 cell array but i keep getting error

[Bhaskar R]

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Answer 1

[Bhaskar R]

Could you specify, what are you trying to do?

The error because of punneeSquare of size 5x5 and you are trying to assign one value to four locations at a time that too in coma seperated outputs. If you are intended to apply

punneeSquare{1, 2:5} = paren1Genes  % first row 2, 3, 4, 5 columns total four locations but you are trying to assigning one value to 4 locations

[Diego Argueta]

okay. So is it an issue with my for loop then? I wanted to make the outputs in my loops a 1x4 array. then i wanted to assign this 1x4 array to the cell in those four locations

[Diego Argueta]

clear;

clc;

parOneA = input('Enter parent 1 A genes: ', 's');

parTwoA = input('Enter parent 2 A genes: ', 's');

parOneB = input('Enter parent 1 B genes: ', 's');

parTwoB = input('Enter parent 2 B genes: ', 's');

p1Genes = {};

for i = [1,2]

for j = [1,2]

p1Genes{end + 1} = [parOneA(i), parOneB(j)];

end

end

p2Genes = {};

for i = [1,2]

for j = [1,2]

p2Genes{end + 1} = [parTwoA(i), parTwoB(j)];

end

end

punnettSquare = cell(5)

punnettSquare{1, 2:5} = p1Genes;

punnetSquare{2:5, 1} = p2Genes;

[Bhaskar R]

Sorry i can't get want you want eactly but i am posting your error less code

clear;
clc;
 
parOneA = input('Enter parent 1 A genes: ', 's');
parTwoA = input('Enter parent 2 A genes: ', 's');
parOneB = input('Enter parent 1 B genes: ', 's');
parTwoB = input('Enter parent 2 B genes: ', 's');
 
p1Genes = cell(1, numel([1,2])*numel([1,2]));
c1 =1;
for i = [1,2]
    for j = [1,2]
        p1Genes{c1} = [parOneA(i), parOneB(j)];
        c1 = c1+1;
    end
end
 
p2Genes = cell(1, numel([1,2])*numel([1,2]));
c2 = 1;
for i = [1,2]
   for j = [1,2]
       p2Genes{c2} = [parTwoA(i), parTwoB(j)];
       c2 = c2+1;
   end
end
 
punnettSquare = [p1Genes;p2Genes];

[Diego Argueta]

Thank you. What i am looking to create is a cell array of 5x5. Then i want the 1x4 array from p1Genes to be assigned row 1 in locations 2,3,4,5. and the same for p2Genes but i want that one in column two. So i guess im trying to assign the arrays locations in the cell array

[Bhaskar R]

punnettSquare = cell(5);

"i want the 1x4 array from p1Genes to be assigned row 1 in locations 2,3,4,5" - it is okay

punnettSquare(1, 2:5) = p1Genes;

"same for p2Genes but i want that one in column two" - ??

punnettSquare(2:5, 2) = p2Genes