Cell Array to Structures

Is there a way to take a 1xM cell array and transform that into a structure array without using the function struct()?

The cell array will always be formatted this way: CellArr = {<field1 name>, {cell array of field 1 contents}, <field2 name, {cell array of field 2 contents}, etc...}

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/cell2struct.html

Note: this will use struct() internally.

[Dan Lynn]

Is there a way to do this without using cell2struct? I managed to separate my field names and contents, so how can I do this with loops?

[Walter Roberson]

You could use dynamic field assignment.

YourStruct = [];
for K = 1 : 2: length(CellArr)
  YourStruct.(CellArr{K}) = CellArr{K+1};
end

It would be stylistically better to initialize

YourStruct = struct();

but you said you wanted to not use struct().

By the way, are you aware that you can do the whole thing by using

YourStruct = struct(CellArr{:});

? Though you would have to watch out for cases where the contents included cell arrays as struct() would tend to create a structure array for those cases instead of a single struct.