Problem 152. Create a cell array out of a struct

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Create a cell array out of a (single) struct with the fieldname in the first column and the value in the second column:

in:

S.foo = 'hello';
S.bar = 3.14;

out:

 {'foo', 'hello';
  'bar', 3.14}

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Thomas Pursche on 13 Mar 2021

It is pretty strange that some solutions do not work even if they are equal
storedvars = fieldnames(S)

FirstVarName = storedvars{1:end}

FirstVarContent = S.(FirstVarName)
c = {storedvars,FirstVarContent}

akihisa yorozu on 21 Aug 2021

I understand how the cell displayed.

imran saeed on 28 Feb 2026 at 15:47

i figure out matlab cel data type is quite messed up and cannot be handled easily, matlab team need to work this out, i tried with grok and deep ai , but they failed the task as well

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