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20## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{m} =} cell2mat (@var{c})
21## Convert the cell array @var{c} into a matrix by concatenating all
22## elements of @var{c} into a hyperrectangle. Elements of @var{c} must
23## be numeric, logical or char, and @code{cat} must be able to
24## concatenate them together.
25## @seealso{mat2cell, num2cell}
28function m = cell2mat (c)
35 error ("cell2mat: c is not a cell array");
44 if (isnumeric (elt) || ischar (elt) || islogical (elt))
49 error ("cell2mat: all elements of cell array must be numeric, logical or char");
51 elseif (ndims (c) == 2)
57 c1{i} = [c{i : nr : end}];
63 c1{i} = cat (1, c{(i - 1) * nr + [1 : nr]});
69 for k = ndims (c):-1:2,
74 c1{i} = cat (k, c{i:(prod (sz)):end});
85%! C = {[1], [2 3 4]; [5; 9], [6 7 8; 10 11 12]};
86%! D = C; D(:,:,2) = C;
87%! E = [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 10 11 12];
88%! F = E; F(:,:,2) = E;
89%!assert (cell2mat (C), E);
90%!assert (cell2mat (D), F);
93%! C = {[1], [2 3 4]; [5; 9], [6 7 8; 10 11 12]};