Reformatting cell arrays of cell arrays

Apologies for what seems to be a very simple question, but I’m having trouble reformatting a cell array and I’m sure there’s a much smarter way of dealing with the problem than creating a loop.

I’ve managed to get myself a cell array in the format:

c =

    {2x1 cell}
    {2x1 cell}
    {2x1 cell}

Which is a 3x1 cell array of 2x1 cell arrays containing strings when ideally I would like to have a 3x2 cell array of strings. Is anyone able to help please?

Please note that I have simplified this problem, I'm really after a solution to when there is an nx1 cell array of mx1 cell arrays.

Ultimately, I'm wanting to create a dataset array so perhaps the ideal solution would create a 1xm cell array of nx1 cell arrays! ie the solution to the above would be:

Newc =

    {3x1 cell}    {3x1 cell}

any ideas on how to do this also?

Thanks for any help which points me in the right direction.

Terry

Answer 1

[Simon]

Hi!

Try

   C{1, 1} = {'11'; '12'};
   C{2, 1} = {'21'; '22'};
   C{3, 1} = {'31'; '32'};

   Rows = 3;
   Columns = 2;

   CO = reshape([C{:}], Columns, Rows).';

   Newc = cell(1, Columns);
   for n = 1:Columns
       Newc{n} = {CO{:, n}}.';
   end

[Terry]

Genius! Thank you very much for your help.