Maria - are there four or five columns in CONCELL? When you match on a column, do you copy over all but the first
You could do something like the following: iterate through each of the elements in RECCELL and look for those from CONCELL that match on the first column. Then find that row of CONCELL whose date is closest to that for RECCELL
[mr,mc] = size(RECCELL);
[~,nc] = size(CONCELL);
% append empty cells to RECCELL that may be populated with matching data
RECCELL = [RECCELL cell(mr,nc)];
for k=1:size(RECCELL,1)
% get the indices from CONCELL whose first column matches that of the
% first column of the kth RECCELL row
[idcs] = find(strcmpi(CONCELL(:,1),RECCELL{k,1}));
if ~isempty(idcs)
% find the two dates that are closest
dateDiff = abs(cell2mat(CONCELL(idcs,3))-cell2mat(RECCELL(k,3)));
% find the minimum
[~,minIdcs] = min(dateDiff);
% just grab the first index (in case multiple with same difference)
minIdx = minIdcs(1);
% append the data
for u=1:nc
RECCELL{k,mc+u} = CONCELL{minIdx,u};
end
end
end
Try the above and see what happens!
