How to add two cells with strings together?

So my teacher asked us to download a csv file with a bunch of data in it that has 15 columns. One of the things we have to do is join together column 1 and column 14 which both contain strings. Is there a function to combine two cells together and put it into a new one? I tried this:

Column1=text1{1};

Column2=text1{14}

C=cellfun(@(x,y) [x ' ' y], A,B,'un',0)

and got this error:

"Error using cellfun. All of the input arguments must be of the same size and shape. Previous inputs had size 4946 in dimension 1. Input #3 has size 4945"

but all of the data is the same amount. please help.

[Adam Danz]

What are A and B?

[Sarah Mullin]

I made A=text1{1} and B=text1{14} in the command window before I used the C=cellfun. (ignore the column1 and column2)

[Walter Roberson]

How did you read in the data? If you used textscan it is possible for leading outputs to be 1 longer than trailing outputs, if a file ends in the middle of a line or if the format uses the wrong number of fields.

[Adam Danz]

What are text1{1} and text1{14}? Examples would be best.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

maxlength = max(numel(A), numel(B));
A = [A(:); repmat({''}, maxlength - numel(A),1)];
B = [B(:); repmat({''}, maxlength - numel(B),1)];
C = strjoin(A, B, ' ');

Answer 2

[Jan]

The message tells you, that A and B have different number of elements. Then a concatenation cannot work. If both have the same size, this is easier than your cellfun approach:

C = strcat(A, ' ', B);