plotting N number of lines without for-loops

I have two matrixes of size (N,3), "S" corresponding to line start points "E" to line end points. I want to plot these lines, and know I can do it using

hold on
N = size(S,1);
for i = 1:N
  plot3( [S(i,1),E(i,1)]  ,  [S(i,2),E(i,2)]  ,  [S(i,3),E(i,3)] )
end

Is there a way to achieve this without using for-loops? I have heard that inputing matrixes should have Matlab interpret the columns as several lines, but I have not gotten it to work properly.

Answer 1

[KSSV]

S = [0 0 0] ;
N = 10 ;
E = rand(N,3)  ;
figure
hold on
S = repmat(S,N,1) ;
x = [S(:,1) E(:,1)] ; 
y = [S(:,2) E(:,2)] ;
z = [S(:,3) E(:,3)] ;
plot3(x',y',z')

[Oscar Frick]

That is exactly what I tried doing, but I couldn't get it to work properly. I must have messed up something in the syntax.

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

Simpler:

>> N = 5;
>> S = randi(9,N,3);
>> E = randi(9,N,3);
>> A = permute(cat(3,S,E),[3,1,2]);
>> plot3(A(:,:,1),A(:,:,2),A(:,:,3))

Giving:

[Dieter Karst]

cool