vertcat double and cell

Question

Trader 2012-4-4

I have a structure called results that looks like this:

    results =   
          time: [256x1 double]
          action: {256x1 cell}

time is filled with serial dates that I'd like to convert to strings and action contains strings like 'waiting', 'open', 'close'

when I try horzcat(results.time, results.action) I get an error saying CAT arguments dimesions are not consistent

I've also tried cat(2, results.time, results.action) and ge tthe same error

thanks

Answer 1

Walter Roberson 2012-4-4

strcat(cellstr(datestr(results.time)), {' '}, results.action)

Trader 2012-4-5

Thanks, Leah and Walter, your suggestions solved my problem!

Answer 2

Leah 2012-4-4

you have to convert so you have the same data types. I converted the double to a cell array.

results.time=[1:256]';
results.action=repmat({'hi'},256,1)
horzcat(num2cell(results.time),results.action)