I have a cell array which looks like this:
abc = {[1,0,1,0];[1,1,0,1];[1,1,1,0]};
I want to separate each cell element into two groups like this:
abc(:,2) = {[1,0];[1,1];[1,1]};
abc(:,3) = {[1,0];[0,1];[1,0]};
I tried using this statement to do it:
abc(:,2:3) = cellfun(@(x) mat2cell(x,[1],[2,2]),abc(:,1),'uni',0);
But this statement gives the following error:
Assignment has fewer non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts
When I try to assign it to abc(:,2) instead of abc(:,2:3), I get the result but as a cell within a cell which is not my requirement.
You can't assign directly to columns 2:3 of abc because the output of cellfun doesn't match the expected dimension. It is 3 x 1 while abc(:,2;3) is 3 x 2. You can use call to cat to make it work though.
abc = {[1,0,1,0];[1,1,0,1];[1,1,1,0]};
tmp = cellfun(@(x) mat2cell(x,[1],[2,2]),abc(:,1),'uni',0);
abc(:,2:3) = cat(1, tmp{:});
%// [1x4 double] [1x2 double] [1x2 double]
%// [1x4 double] [1x2 double] [1x2 double]
%// [1x4 double] [1x2 double] [1x2 double]
An alternative that doesn't use cellfun could be.
abc = {[1,0,1,0];[1,1,0,1];[1,1,1,0]};
abc(:,2:3) = mat2cell(cat(1, abc{:}), ones(1,size(abc,1)), [2 2]);