Setting Array Value

Hello Guys I have really rather simple question: I want to set an array value into the follow [1, 3, 1, 7;1, 3, 1, 7;1, 3, 1, 7] and I used the following command a(1:3,1:3)=[1 3 1 7] But it is not working. Any clues ? Thank you.

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

Another:

A = repmat([1,3,1,7],3,1)  % change the 3 to 5 to get 5 rows, etc...

Answer 2

[Paulo Silva]

r=[1 3 1 7]
a=[r;r;r]

or

r=[1 3 1 7]
b=ones(4,1)*r
b=b(1:3,:)

or

r=[1 3 1 7]
repmat(r,3,1)

[Mohamed mohamed]

Thank you Paul but I was looking for more Generic Answer what is the number of columns was 100 or any other number how to set them all in to r ?

[Paulo Silva]

Use the repmat function to replicate rows