Reshaping cells: transform a 1xj cell with i observations on into a 1xi cell with j observations

I want to know the best practice to reshape cells.

Let's say I have a 1x5 cell that has 2 observations in each cell:

cbar=linspace(0,1,2);
for i=1:5
    for j=1:2
VAR{i}(j)=i+cbar(j);
    end
end

Let's say I want to create another cell that will be 1x2 and will have 5 observation in each cell (so I am reshaping the VAR cell above). The way I am approaching this, which is not working, is the following

for i=1:2
    for j=1:5
   VAR_new{j}(i)=VAR{i}(j);
    end
end

It happens that for some reason the VAR_new is empty.

How can I do this properly? Thank you!

Answer 1

[Vishal Bhutani]

Hi, the .mat file you have provided is having VAR variable of type cell with size 1x5. And each cell is having 10 observations, and VAR_new you are creating using your code is of size 1x5. Can you provide more details on that?