Help on creating structures??

The only way I know how to create a structure where all of my sections are ordered is like so:

struct1(1).name='Krista';

struct1(2).name='Kranthi';

struct1(3).name='Kevin';

struct1(4).name='Kalil';

struct1(5).name='Kristen';

struct1(1).date=[10 5 1993];

struct1(2).date=[6 16 1990];

struct1(3).date=[4 20 1991];

struct1(4).date=[7 10 1819];

struct1(5).date=[2 31 1992];

Is there are more concise way to write the code for this and still get the same result?? Help appreciated :) thank you!

Answer 1

[Jacob Halbrooks]

You could enter your data into a two-column cell array and then use CELL2STRUCT:

 data = {'Krista', [10 5 1993]; ...
         'Kranthi', [6 16 1990]; ...
         'Kevin', [4 20 1991]; ...
         'Kalil', [7 10 1819]; ...
         'Kristen', [2 31 1992]};
 s = cell2struct(data, {'name', 'date'},2)