Question

For example, I have:

A = ['apple','banana','strawberry','orange']
B = ['2','1','1','4']

I want:

struct_foo = 
     apple: 2
    banana: 1
strawberry: 1
    orange: 4

In other words, I want a struct whose fields are elements in A and the value of those fields are elements in B.

I can do this easily with a for loop…, but is there an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

You can use the command cell2struct. Note the curly brackets when defining A and B. Also, you may want to remove the quotation marks around the numbers in B if the values should be numeric.

A = {'apple','banana','strawberry','orange'}
B = {'2','1','1','4'}
out = cell2struct(B',A)

out = 

         apple: '2'
        banana: '1'
    strawberry: '1'
        orange: '4'