Creating a multi-dimensional array out of many lower-dimensional arrays

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Hello!
I currently have a hundred or so large datasets that are MxN (thus 2-D), for the external program that I use to gather this information I must run it for each of the parameters that I'm changing, for example ... etc. Therefore I now have hundreds of MxN datasets that need to be combined into a multi-dimensional array. To give an example:
What I currently have:
data(alpha,mach) = 15; % element of the data at specified alpha and mach, for delta1 = 0; delta2 = 0; delta3 = 0; delta4 = 0;...
data(alpha,mach) = 10; % element of the data at specified alpha and mach, for delta1 = 5; delta2 = 0; delta3 = 0; delta4 = 0;...
Now I would like to have
data(alpha,mach,0,0,0,0,...) = 15;
data(alpha,mach,5,0,0,0,...) = 10;
I've looked into the "cat" command, but I'm not 100% on how it works, and how to check that the data that I've combined retains the same information.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Ayden Clay
Ayden Clay on 4 Apr 2020
Sadly, the program that I use is external and produces data in an unchangeable way, the data is stored in data.for006{1:end} sorry for my confusion, I misstyped.
Taiwo Bamigboye
Taiwo Bamigboye on 4 Apr 2020
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Matt J
Matt J on 4 Apr 2020
Edited: Matt J on 4 Apr 2020
If your "datasets" really are in the form of the Matlab dataset type described here, then I think you could probably just do something like the following:
C=dataset2cell(data); %convert the datasets to cell array
[m,n,p,q,r,s,t]=deal(10,12,5,5,5,5,5); %The data dimensions
dataArray = reshape( cat(3,C{:}) , [m,n,p,q,r,s,t]);
Now, for interpolation purposes, you can create a griddedInterpolant object as below,
gridVectors ={alphaList,machList,delta1List,....}; %List of sample grid values for each of the variables
lookupFunction=griddedInterpolant(gridVectors,dataArray);
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Matt J
Matt J on 6 Apr 2020
I don't see anything in your code that relies on length(beta)==length(mach).
Ayden Clay
Ayden Clay on 6 Apr 2020
Edited: Ayden Clay on 6 Apr 2020
It seems to be the case that the reshaped array will be size = [nalpha,nbeta,nmach,ndelta1,...]; Which, must be permuted (swapping the mach and beta dimensions) to produce the correct array. So, nmach == nbeta.
I wish it weren't the case, if the reshape method or the cat method can immeditely produce the correct array that would be perfect.

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