How to iteratively go through a structure?

I have some data from 100 different tests that I ran. There are 2 variables that were swept through for 10 values each, resulting in 100 tests (i.e. variable 1 is A with 10 elements, variable 2 is B with 10 elements, my test data is from all the permutations of A and B). A few timeseries measurements are made for each test. I have my data saved in a structure like:

Data.A1.B1.meas1
Data.A1.B1.meas2
%...
Data.A1.B1.measN
Data.A1.B2.meas1
Data.A1.B2.meas2
%...
Data.A2.B1.meas1
%...
Data.A10.B10.measN

I need to take the mean of the timeseries data for each test. Is there some way to set up a loop such that I can easily iterate through the struct to do this? Some thing like:

for i = 1:10
    for j = 1:10
        DataMean = mean(Data.A(i).B(j).meas1)
    end
end

Is there a more efficient way to structure the data to make this easier?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Perhaps there is a way to vectorize it. But the for loop is not bad, except that you should use (i,j) indexes on DataMean otherwise you're just overwriting the same variable all the time.

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We need to know if you have an array for A that you can index, or if you have 10 separate fields called A1, A2, A3, ... A10. You've implied it both ways but it can only be one way.

[dpb]

"We need to know if you have an array for A that you can index, or if you have 10 separate fields called A1, A2, A3, ..."

Unfortunately, undoubtedly as is so often the case when starting down this path, @Michael Nye is hoping there is some magic incantation that will turn his loop expression

DataMean = mean(Data.A(i).B(j).meas1)

that refers to the arrays of a struct field into fieldnames referring to Data.Ai.Bj on each iteration. That is the way that leads to buggy, slow, obfuscated code through the ugly eval route.

What he was really looking for is to have built a struct array such that

for i=1:numel(Data)
  DataMean(i)=mean(Data(i).A.B.meas1)
end

Unfortunately, unless he has the data saved in some other format so that he can modify the code that created the present, he's left with having to go the route of much pain.

At least, one can <build dynamic fields names> and go at it that way...using strings that will automagically do the num2str() conversion building "A"+i, etc., ...

[Michael Nye]

@Image Analyst You are correct, I did mean to type (i,j) indices on DataMean in my original question, apologies on that.

Originally, the data was saved as A1, A2,..., B1, B2,... but from your answer, I didn't realise that I can save it as A(1), A(2),..., B(1), B(2),... in a struct. This seems to be what I needed. Doing so, I can use nested for loops as I had originally described. It seems that I accidentally created the correct solution to my own problem without knowing it.

Cheers!