Reconstruct 2D array from single values

I am sending data over from labview to matlab (with javasockets) The values I am sending is a 2d array, and they will be sent one by one to matlab. I want to receive these values, and be able to reconstruct the same original array, with the same dimensions. How can I do this? I have looked at reshape(), but the output array is not what I expect. For example if I receive 8 numbers: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

I want to put them into a 2x4 array : [1,2,3,4 ; 5,6,7,8]

I know the mxn dimensions the output array in advance.

Thanks

Answer 1

[Roger Stafford]

After doing an appropriate reshape, do a transpose to achieve that result:

 reshape([1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8],4,2).'

 (= [1,2,3,4 ; 5,6,7,8])