Question

Assume there is a cell array initialized with the following struct values.

% Phone book
phone_record{1} = struct('name', 'Bob', 'phone', '1233323');
phone_record{2} = struct('name', 'Mike', 'phone', '3245524');

% How to make such or similar one-liner work?
% phonebook(:) = phone_record{:}

% Expected:
% phonebook(1).name = 'Bob';
% phonebook(1).phone= '1233323';
% phonebook(2).name = 'Mike';
% phonebook(2).phone = '3245524';

Is it indeed possible to accomplish this w/o using cell2struct or for-loop indexing?
Can one use deal or similar?

Note: if you don’t know the solution please spare the “best-practice” hinting or similar “hand-waving”.

Answer 1

You can use cell2mat :

cell2mat(phone_record)

ans =

1×2 struct array with fields:

name
phone