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Accessing data of a cell in MATLAB?

I was hoping I could get some help using the cellfun function in MATLAB.

Let's say I have cell that contains 5 10x2 matrices, i.e. 

C = {[10x2], [10x2]...,[10x2]}

However, I want a new cell that takes the first 5 rows across both columns in each array, i.e. I want 

D = {[5x2], [5x2]...,[5x2]}

Is there a way to do this in Matlab using cellfun? I tried doing 

D = cellfun(@(x) x(1:5),C,'UniformOutput',false)

But then this returned a cell that only contained the first 5 rows of only the first column in each array (and was also transposed) i.e., I got 

D = {[1x5], [1x5]...,[1x5]}

Hopefully I explained this well.

Can anyone help? I think there's a simple way to do it but I'm new to cellfun. It seems useful though. Maybe there's an even easier way I'm not seeing?

Solution

  • You were missing the definition of indices of the columns:

    A = rand(10,2)
C = {A,A,A,A,A};

%//           here ....|
D = cellfun(@(x) x(1:5,:), C,'UniformOutput',false)

    In this case you want all columns, that's why you use :. You could also use x(1:5,1:2) - in your case it's equal to x(1:5,:).

    C = 

  Columns 1 through 5

    [10x2 double]    [10x2 double]    [10x2 double]    [10x2 double]    [10x2 double]


D = 

  Columns 1 through 5

    [5x2 double]    [5x2 double]    [5x2 double]    [5x2 double]    [5x2 double]