Cell conversion to double

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Steven 2011-10-17

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Greetings, Let's say a is a 11x1 cell like this a = '0.000000' '1.000000' '2.000000' '3.000000' '4.000000' '5.000000' '6.000000' '7.000000' '8.000000' '9.000000' '10.000000' and I want to convert it in double. If I try b=cell2mat(a), I got the following error : ??? Error using ==> cat CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent. Error in ==> cell2mat at 85 m{n} = cat(1,c{:,n}); However, I know I can bypass it with a loop with 2 conversion as: for i = 1:length(a) b(i) = str2num(cell2mat(a(i))); end Thus, I wonder if there is a simpler way to do this with an easy one-step function. Regards, Steven

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ayesha abbassi 2018-2-24

B = cell2mat(A). now check its type by writing whos B in command window

Chrysi K. 2019-2-5

@ayesha abbassi Thank you so much!!! You helped me!!! I had a similar problem!

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To convert a cell array of character vectors to numbers, you can use the |str2double| function. This function is the simplest method. C = {'0.000000'; '10.000000'; '100000.000000'}; M = str2double(C) The |cell2mat| function converts a cell array of character vectors to a character array, and only if all the character vectors have the same length. |cell2mat| also preserves the data type of the contents of the cells, so it does not convert characters to numbers. If you need your code to be fast, then use the following code instead. This code is faster than |str2double|: C = {'0.000000'; '1.000000'; '2.000000'; ... '3.000000'; '4.000000'; '5.000000'; '6.000000' '7.000000'; '8.000000'; '9.000000'; '10.000000'}; S = sprintf('%s*', C{:}); N = sscanf(S, '%f*'); Unfortunately |sprintf| seems to forget a proper pre-allocation. This C-Mex is 4 times faster: : S = CStr2String(C, '*'); N = sscanf(S, '%f*'); Timings in 2011b, Core2Duo: n = 100; C = cell(1, n); for iC = 1:n; C{i} = sprintf('%f', i); end tic; for i=1:1000; N = cellfun(@(x)str2double(x), C); end; toc >> 3.61 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = cellfun(@(x) sscanf(x, '%f'), C); end; toc >> 3.01 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = str2double(C); end; toc >> 2.79 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = cellfun(@str2double, C); end; toc >> 2.49 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = zeros(1,100); for j=1:100; N(j) = sscanf(C{j}, '%f'); end; end; toc >> 1.40 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = sscanf(sprintf('%s*', C{:}), '%f*'); end; toc >> 0.14 sec tic; for i=1:1000; N = sscanf(CStr2String(C, '*'), '%f*'); end; toc >> 0.071 sec To my surprise a full implementation in C is *slower* than |sscanf(sprintf())|, see . Matlab's sscanf seems to be much better than the MSVC implementation.