I have a structure and I need to assign a value to it , I cannot make a comma separated list here. Any suggestions? Matlab documentation on structures doesn't help me out

More specifically I need to do this: STATISTICS.DEAD(h,r+1)=dead; Now this section comes within a for loop containing the r variable. This pops out the error: Scalar structure required for this assignment.

[Walter Roberson]

For that error to occur, STATISTICS must be a non-scalar structure at that point. The code appears to be expecting it to be a scalar structure.

Is the variable dead expected to somehow hold information to assign into each member of the non-scalar structure? If so, what data type is dead ?

Or is dead a scalar, and you want to go through all members of the non-scalar STATISTICS structure and assign that value to that location? If so the easiest way is to loop,

for D = 1 : numel(STATISTICS)
 STATISTICS(D).DEAD(h,r+1) = dead;
end

[KSSV]

Why don't you show us the whole code? what is dead? String , scalar or vector?