How to concatenate a row of variable names and a double?

I want to add my cell array of variable names to a double array of numbers. How would one do this properly?

[James Tursa]

Please provide a small example of inputs and desired output.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

You can concatenate them within a cell array. Based on your question and title, I'm guessing you've got a row of variable names and a row of numbers of equal length to the variable name array.

VarNames = {'Sofia', 'Plovdiv', 'Burgas', 'Varna', 'Veliko Turnovo', 'Haskovo', 'Ruse'}; 
values = randi(100,size(VarNames)); 

y = [VarNames; num2cell(values)];

Result:

 2×7 cell array

    {'Sofia'}    {'Plovdiv'}    {'Burgas'}    {'Varna'}    {'Veliko Turnovo'}    {'Haskovo'}    {'Ruse'}
    {[   82]}    {[     91]}    {[    13]}    {[   92]}    {[            64]}    {[     10]}    {[  28]}

Or perhaps you want a table

T = array2table(values, 'VariableNames', VarNames)

Result: (different random values)

  1×7 table
    Sofia    Plovdiv    Burgas    Varna    Veliko Turnovo    Haskovo    Ruse
    _____    _______    ______    _____    ______________    _______    ____

      4        85         94       68            76            75        40 

Answer 2

[Rik]

If you want to mix data types: that's not going to be possible. Each variable in Matlab can only be single type, so something like the code below will not work.

['SomeRandomString1' 5;...
    'SomeOtherString' pi]

If you want to store an array like that you will need a cell array:

{'SomeRandomString1' 5;...
    'SomeOtherString' pi}

Now each cell acts as a container for a variable. In some cells you have now stored char arrays, and in others scalar doubles.