How do you sum the number of boxes in this cell array?

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Jason
Jason el 14 de Oct. de 2014
Respondida: Mohammad Abouali el 14 de Oct. de 2014
% create cell array of box types, number of boxes
% and box dimensions in mm
boxData = {'smallSquareBox', 14, [50, 50, 50], ...
'largeSquareBox', 9, [100, 100, 100], ...
'smallRectBox', 7, [40, 60, 30], ...
'largeRectBox', 2, [120, 260, 80]};
Write a MATLAB problem that will determine the total number of boxes. Hint: use iteration to extract the contents of the cell array corresponding to the numbers of each box type and sum the resulting numbers. The program should work for any cell array of data formatted like the boxData cell array, not just specific boxData cell array. I'm not sure how to do this if anyone could help me out I would really appreciate it!!
I tried this but it wont work...
for k = boxData(2:3:end)
nums = k{1,:};
totalboxes = sum(nums);
end
disp(totalboxes)

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Mohammad Abouali
Mohammad Abouali el 14 de Oct. de 2014
Does this work:
sum(cell2mat(boxData(2:3:end)))

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SK
SK el 14 de Oct. de 2014
You've got the cell referencing wrong. Try:
nums = [boxData{2:3:end}]; % Note the square brackets.
totalboxes = sum(nums);
disp(totalboxes)
(a:b:c) refers to the cells specified by the indices.
{a:b:c} refers to the list of cell contents specified by the indices.
[{a:b:c}] puts the list of contents into an array if they are all of the same type. (but [] is not necessary if the there is only one element in the list).

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