Categorical cell array reshaping

Dear All

I have a cell array (2x7) of 1x1 categorical arrays that looks like below

1 0 0 0 0 1 0

1 1 1 1 0 1 0

I like to combine this into a 1x7 cell array of categories so it looks like below

1;1 0;1 0;1 0;1 0;0 1;1 0;0

Anyone have any ideas how to do this. Help is highly appreciated.

Cheers Mads

[Guillaume]

What is a categorical cell array? A cell array of 1x1 categorical arrays? something else?

Please use valid matlab syntax for your example to remove ambiguities.

[MB Sylvest]

Yes, this is a 2x7 cell array of 1x1 categorical arrays

[Image Analyst]

Original question in case user edits it away:

Dear All

I have a cell array (2x7) of 1x1 categorical arrays that looks like below

1 0 0 0 0 1 0

1 1 1 1 0 1 0

I like to combine this into a 1x7 cell array of categories so it looks like below

1;1 0;1 0;1 0;1 0;0 1;1 0;0

Anyone have any ideas how to do this. Help is highly appreciated.

Cheers Mads

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

this is a 2x7 cell array of 1x1 categorical arrays

example cell array:

yourcellarray = num2cell(categorical([1 0 0 0 0 1 0; 1 1 1 1 0 1 0]))

notice that I first construct a 2x7 categorical array to create the cell array. A categorical array is what you should use instead of a cell array of categorical, so let's convert it back to a simple array. Unfortunately, cell2mat only works with numerical types so we have to be a bit roundabout:

c = reshape([yourcellarray{:}], size(yourcellarray));

You should leave it at that. If you do really want a cell array of column vector (which would be slower and more complicated to use), you can convert c back to a cell array with

num2cell(c, 1)

I wouldn't recommend it.

[MB Sylvest]

Cheers this work great

Answer 2

[Yuvaraj Venkataswamy]

if true
  X=your_categoricalArray;
  Y=double(X); % your answer
end