array of structs how to preallocate and assign
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I have a struct;
s.a = 1;
s.b=[1 2 3];
and i want a struct array such that:
sa(1).a = 1;
sa(1).b=s.b=[1 2 3];
sa(2).a=3;
sa(2).b=[0 0 0];
and so on. Assignment to sa is done in a loop. How do i preallocate sa? I tried
sa = struct([]);
sa = zeros(1,n);
but none of the above works. If I do not preallocate, matlab warns about speed of the code.
Another question is, how do I assign s to sa(i)? That is how to make the following work:
sa(1) = s;
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Jan
on 6 Sep 2021
An easy way is to create the struct array backwards:
sa = struct([]);
for k = 3:-1:1
sa(k).a = k;
sa(k).b = rand;
end
Another option:
sb = struct('a', cell(1, 3), 'b', cell(1, 3));
% Now sb is a struct array of size [1, 3] with the empty fields a and b.
sb(1)
For the 2nd question: Your code is working, so what exactly are you asking for?
s.a = 1;
s.b = [1 2 3];
sa(1) = s
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