Programming and Data Types

Cell Arrays

A cell array is a MATLAB array for which the elements are cells, containers that can hold other MATLAB arrays. For example, one cell of a cell array might contain a real matrix, another an array of text strings, and another a vector of complex values.

You can build cell arrays of any valid size or shape, including multidimensional structure arrays.

Note    The examples in this section focus on two-dimensional cell arrays. For examples of higher-dimension cell arrays, see Multidimensional Arrays.

The following list summarizes the contents of this section:

• Creating Cell Arrays
• Obtaining Data from Cell Arrays
• Deleting Cells
• Reshaping Cell Arrays
• Replacing Lists of Variables with Cell Arrays
• Applying Functions and Operators
• Organizing Data in Cell Arrays
• Nesting Cell Arrays
• Converting Between Cell and Numeric Arrays
• Cell Arrays of Structures

Nesting Structures

Creating Cell Arrays