from cell array to numeric vector

I have a 1x52 length cell array of years stored in MWDIData_years, i need to get these to be a nummeric vector. I am trying something like

x = cell2mat(MWDIData_years(:));

But it gives me a 52x4 matrix of chars where each adress in the matrix is a single number, ie 1994 becomes 1 9 9 4.

How can i get around this problem ?

Thank you

Thor

Answer 1

[Mark Whirdy]

    MWDIData_pop(1,1:5) = {[3752373],[3876616],[4006236],[4140773],[4279524]}; % square brackets in a cellarray indicates that the elements are numeric so if this is your starting point then  no need to convert to a numeric, just convert cell to mat

    cell2mat(MWDIData_pop(i,:)); % just a cell2mat

If I'm misunderstanding what you're doing here, then please paste in more of your code which GENERATES these cellarrays as the extra bit of clarity there will help in giving you a better response in how to manipulate/convert them to other datatypes.

[DoVile Last Name:]

Cell2mat was all that i needed, works now.

Thanks for the help Mark

Answer 2

[Mark Whirdy]

    yearCellArray = {'2008';'2009';'2010'};
    yearVector = cellfun(@str2double,yearCellArray);

[DoVile Last Name:]

Thanks Mark works great,

however i have run into a strange problem, while it works for the years i have another cell array it does not seem to work for.

 MWDIData_pop(i,1:5) = [3752373]    [3876616]    [4006236]    [4140773]    [4279524]

It must be something to do with the brackets, the previous vector was using ' symbols. But when i ask for class on any of the above numbers it still says it is a cell. I feel like i am probably missing something fundamental to Matlab here :)

Also Thanks

[Andrei Bobrov]

just

y = {'2008';'2009';'2010'};
str2double(y);

[DoVile Last Name:]

It doesnt work, it just returns NA values when i do it like that..