Access multiple structure fields and put them in a new structure or vector

I have a cell structure with below layout. In below example I acces a single field.

dataArray{1,(2)}(1,1)

Is there a way to acces multiple fields and get them into a new structure or a vector without using a for loop?

E.g. dataArray{1,(2:10)}(1,1)

I'm afraid I use the brackets in a wrong way.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

No, what you are asking for is not possible. This syntax:

dataArray{1,2:10}

creates a comma-separated list of separate arrays, which cannot be further indexed into using one pair of parentheses as your example shows.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/comma-separated-lists.html

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/320713-how-to-operate-on-comma-separated-lists

You can use parentheses (as opposed to curly braces) to return that part of the cell array:

sub = dataArray(1,2:10)

You could use that together with cellfun to return the first element of each of those cells:

out = cellfun(@(a)a(1,1),dataArray(1,2:10))