How to concatenate two matrices

I need to concatenate two matrices

x=[ 1 2 3 4]
y=[5 6 7 8]

such that I get

z=[1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8]

[Oleg Komarov]

Have you tried looking in the documentation for "concatenate"?

[Sharon]

yes cat(2,x,y) gives me

ans=

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and not

1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8

Answer 1

[Honglei Chen]

z = [x;y];
z = z(:).'

[Sharon]

thanks..