Increase the number of fields within a 'for' loop?
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Julia Horne
il 15 Mar 2018
Commentato: Julia Horne
il 19 Mar 2018
I am trying to read a .csv file containing elemental abundances in certain reservoirs, with different units. I want to order this mass of data into a structure that is named 'LITgeo' and contains fields 'species', 'reservoir' and 'unit'. Currently, whenever two different measurements of the same unit go through the loop, the former is replaced by the latter. I want to be able to make my 'unit' field a vector that can contain multiple different measurements in the same units. Here's what I have thus far:
for isp = 1:length(LIT_geosp)
species = LIT_geosp{isp};
reservoir = LIT_geores{isp};
value = LIT_geoval(isp);
unit = LIT_geounit{isp};
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit)= value ;
end
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Guillaume
il 16 Mar 2018
I personally don't like multilevel structures. They're often awkward to use and matlab's display interface for them is lacking. Nowadays, I prefer tables even if it means storing redundant information.
If you stick with multilevel structures, you could check if the field(s) already exist and if so, increase the number of elements. If not, create the fields:
species = LIT_geosp{isp};
reservoir = LIT_geores{isp};
value = LIT_geoval(isp);
unit = LIT_geounit{isp};
if isfield(LITgeo, species) && isfield(LITgeo.(species), reservoir) && isfield(LITgeo.(species).(reservoir), unit)
%the test above will bail out as soon as one of the field is not valid because of the short-circuiting behaviour of &&
&if we get here all fields are valid
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit)(end+1) = value;
else
%at least unit is new
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit) = value;
end
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per isakson
il 16 Mar 2018
Modificato: per isakson
il 16 Mar 2018
Run
species = 'A';
reservoir = 'B';
unit = 'C';
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit) = 1;
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit)(2) = 2;
LITgeo.(species).(reservoir).(unit)(end+1) = 17;
and see the result
>> LITgeo.A.B.C
ans =
1 2 17
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per isakson
il 17 Mar 2018
- "but it requires that I preallocate the struct" see the answer by Guillaume
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