Want to combine 4 structures into 1?

Hello, I currently have 4 structures: (Human1 [1x13], Auto1 [1x9], Human2 [1x1], Auto2 [1x1]). I should note, each of these structs has 4 fields in the (A;B;C;D). I want to combine these into a single struct called AllSituations. I want to be able to click on all situations and see first categories 1 and 2, and when you click into 1 you see Human1 and Auto1 and same with 2. Then when you click on Human1 or any of them you can see their struct listed.

I don't know how to combine structures within structures, so I was hoping for some help!

[Jan]

The question is not clear: "click into 1 you see Human1 and Auto1". Currently the "1" appears in the name of the struct only. After "combining" the structs, the new struct must have a new name and then the "1" and "2" information vanishes. It was a very bad idea to include this information in the name of the variable.

It is not clear, where you want to "click" on what. Clicking implies a GUI.

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

You shouldn't have numbered your variables in the first place. That only leads to problems. Put them together in an array.

If I understood correctly, this should give you more or less what you want:

Allsituations.Human = Human1;
Allsituations.Auto = Auto1;
Allsituations(2).Human = Human2;
Allsituations(2).Auto = Auto2;

Or as a more efficient but slightly more obscure one liner:

Allsituations = struct('Human', {Human1, Human2}, 'Auto', {Auto1, Auto2});

[Jan]

+1. Or:

Allsituations(1).Human          = Human1;
Allsituations(1).Human.Category = 1;

or perhaps

Allsituations(1).Category = 1;

Then the category is independent from the index.

[MIRANDA WHAH]

Sorry for using numbers in the example! The real names of my variables are not those, I just thought it would be easier for explaining purposes.

My actual variables are:

CriticalCutAuto
CriticalCutHuman
CriticalFolAuto
CricticalFolHuman

and I want to put them in a struct called All Situations, to which you can click and 2 categories pop up: Follow and Cut. If you were to click on Follow, you would then see CriticalFolAuto and CriticalFolHuman, and when you click on one of those you see their original strutures.

I think the information you both gave me should work just fine. Sorry for any confusion there!

[Jan]

Even if the key is not a number, storing relevant data in the name of teh variable is a bad idea. Use variables instead:

Event(1).Class  = 'Cut'
Event(1).Object = 'Auto'
Event(2).Class  = 'Cut'
Event(2).Object = 'Human'
Event(3).Class  = 'Fol'
Event(3).Object = 'Auto'
Event(4).Class  = 'Cut'
Event(4).Object = 'Human'

Do you see it? Then the combination of many "events" is trivial.