finding the min value in a cell array

I have the following:

cell = {[5;2;4;3;6;9] [2;5;4;8;9;7] [8;4;5;6;7;9]}

I would like to find the minimum value in the first two columns of "cell".

basically I want to take the first two columns and compute the smallest value. i.e. 2

How should I do that?

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

You've not well defined what you mean by minimum (overall minimum or minimum of each column).

Overall minimum:

min(vertcat(c{[1 2]}))

minimum of each column:

cellfun(@min, c)

By the way, do not name your variable cell, this will prevent using from using the built-in cell function.

[Duncan]

thank you, I meant overall minimum

[DGM]

@Mehri Mehrnia's comment-as-answer moved here:

min(vertcat(c{[1 2]})) : it computes just for 1st array.

I look for all arrays that each array is a vector with different size.