Concatenating Arrays end to end 1D

Hi folks, I am trying to join some 1d arrays together, some with numbers and others with text, but running into some issues.

I have the following:

Blank='-';
FailureCode = 18;
Duplicates = [1;71;91;119;141;155;160;255];
a= cellstr(repmat(Blank, [FailureCode 1]));

e = cat(1, Duplicates, a)

e = 19×1 cell array
    {8×1 double}
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }
    {'-'       }

From this, it can be seen that the first cell is an 8x1 double. However I would like a full 1d array where the last value of duplicates joins to the first value of the repeated dash symbol array 'a'.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks,

Calum.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

One option is to convert ‘Duplicates’ to a cell array (using num2cell) to make it compatible with the other values —

Blank='-';
FailureCode = 18;
Duplicates = [1;71;91;119;141;155;160;255];
a= cellstr(repmat(Blank, [FailureCode 1]));

e = cat(1, num2cell(Duplicates), a)

e = 26×1 cell array
    {[  1]}
    {[ 71]}
    {[ 91]}
    {[119]}
    {[141]}
    {[155]}
    {[160]}
    {[255]}
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }
    {'-'  }

.

[Calum]

Hi Star Strider, thanks a lot. Was silly of me to overlook compatibility. This works perfectly!

C.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

No worries! I needed to experiment with a couple different approaches to get it to work.