How to concatenate structs with different fieldnames?

I'm looking for a way to concatenate structures which have different fieldnames into one struct array of with similar fieldnames.

Below you will find a minimum working example:

% Convert this 
Object(1).Stats.Var1 = 1; 
Object(1).Stats.Var2 = 2; 
Object(2).Stats.Var1 = 1;  
% Towards this 
Output = [struct('Var1', 1, 'Var2', 2);
    struct('Var1', 1, 'Var2', [])];

% But this doesn't work 
[Object.Stats]

This returns an error message "Number of fields in structure arrays being concatenated do not match. Concatenation of structure arrays requires that these arrays have the same set of fields."

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Just use some loops (this will be quite efficient):

A(1).Stats.Var1 = 1;
A(1).Stats.Var2 = 2;
A(2).Stats.Var1 = 3;
Z = repmat(struct(),size(A));
for ii = 1:numel(A)
    S = A(ii).Stats;
    F = fieldnames(S);
    for jj = 1:numel(F)
        Z(ii).(F{jj}) = S.(F{jj});
    end
end

And checking:

>> Z(1).Var1
ans =  1
>> Z(1).Var2
ans =  2
>> Z(2).Var1
ans =  3
>> Z(2).Var2
ans = []

[JBl147]

Thanks!

Hoped for a one-liner, but this does the trick as well.

Answer 2

[Matt J]

[Object(1:2).Stats]=deal( struct('Var1', [], 'Var2', [])); %first, do this

Object(1).Stats.Var1 = 1; 
Object(1).Stats.Var2 = 2; 
Object(2).Stats.Var1 = 1;

Output=[Object.Stats]

[JBl147]

Thanks, this works. Unfortunately, it does not fully solve my issue as I do not know the names of the variables and in which struct they are, so I can’t initialize using your first line.

Can you also solve it in this case?