struct problem when dealing with different field types

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Art 2015-4-10

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I created a struct containing variables of length 'n' (numeric) in separate fields: mystruct = struct('field1',variable_1,'field2', variable_2, ...)

everything works fine and I can type mystruct.field1 and it shows the values of variable_1 from 1:n:

ans = 
 32  2  22  1  1  2 ...n

If I type mystruct.field1(1) I get 32. This is good.

Now I want to include a variable which is a character cell in the struct, also of length n (n cells of differing sizes). When I add this variable to the struct, all the fields change to cells (I think), and I have to type mystruct (1).field1(1) to see 32. This is bad.

Is there a way to implement a cell in a struct without changing everything to cell? Or, is there a way to make a char string into something besides a cell to be stored into struct?

I tried changing the ascii chars into a binary stream and using bin2dec to turn into the dec equivalent for use in the struct, the problem is that this only works for shorter strings. If the string is too long, the decimal equivalent is too big for Matlab to handle.

Any ideas?

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Art 2015-4-10

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OK, so here is what I am doing..

I have a large loop which parses a binary file and defines variables:

for i = 1:n 
  variable1(i) = bin2dec(binaryfile(1:4)) %%bytes 1-4
  variable2(i) = bin2dec(binaryfile(5:8))
  ...
  variableX(i) = {char(binaryfile(30:50))}
end
%
mystruct = ('field1',variable1, ...)

most variables are a decimal representation of 4 bytes from a large data file (I merge the 4 bytes into one 32bit binary stream first, then bin2dec it). The problem is that there are a couple variables that are 20 bytes (160 bits), which is too large to change to decimal.

When I comment out the "variableX" line in the above code, I get a struct of length "1" containing variables of length "n". When I keep the "variableX" line in, I get a struct of length "n" with variables of length "n" as well.

I'd like to keep everything in decimal form as many variables will be plotted from the struct.

James Tursa 2015-4-10

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See Per's solution using the { } wrapper for the cell array of strings. E.g., for your case:

mystruct = struct('field1',variable1, ... ,'fieldX',{variableX})

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"implement a cell in a struct" &nbsp I'm not sure I understand.

Hint:

    >> sas = struct('vec',[1:12],'string','abcdefgh','cellstr',{{'abc123','def456'}})
    sas = 
            vec: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12]
         string: 'abcdefgh'
        cellstr: {'abc123'  'def456'}
    >> sas.structure = struct('f1',1,'s1','a' )
    sas = 
              vec: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12]
           string: 'abcdefgh'
          cellstr: {'abc123'  'def456'}
        structure: [1x1 struct]
    >>

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Art 2015-4-10

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I see you have to put {} in the actual structure definition to get this to work.

I actually dynamically assign the structure definition based on the variables that are created, which makes this solution difficult. my code to dynamically define the structure is as follows (I use "who" to find all existing variables before my code, then "who" again afterwords. Then I diff the two and the result is "new_var_list" or all the variables I created)

      [len,wid] = size(new_var_list);
      struct_construct = '';
      for structnum = 1:len
          clear varname
          varname = strrep(new_var_list(structnum,:),' ','');
          struct_construct = strcat(struct_construct,sprintf('''%s'',%s,',varname,varname));
      end
      struct_construct = strrep(strcat('(',struct_construct,')'),',)',')');
      evalstr = sprintf('%s = struct%s;',MESSAGE_NAME,struct_construct);
      eval(evalstr);

"struct_construct" ends up being the string of "('fieldname1',variable1,...)" for all variables created. I'm not sure how to add "{}" around only some of the variables that are cells... Any ideas to get this to work outside of that solution?

James Tursa 2015-4-10

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Well, you could find out if varname is a cell array and then take appropriate steps as you see fit. E.g.,

var_is_cell = eval(['iscell(' varname ')']);
if( var_is_cell )
    varadd = ['{' varname '}'];
else
    varadd = varname;
end
struct_construct = strcat(struct_construct,sprintf('''%s'',%s,',varname,varadd));

Or you could put in code to actually change the variable in question to a scalar cell array:

if( var_is_cell )
    eval([varname '={' varname '}']);
end

But this is getting ugly, isn't it? Are you sure you want to go down this route of generating struct's with fieldnames that are defined from strings in real-time? How are you planning on dealing with this downstream in your code? More sprintf's and eval's? This is going to be a real headache down the road for you to manage the code for readability and maintainability.

Art 2015-4-29

yes, maintainability may be an issue, luckily I do know beforehand which variables will be what types. Thanks for all the input

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