How to append elements into a 2D cell array

Hi all,

What I want to do is to append certain elements to a row of a 2D cell array. The code I have so far is really close to what I want and looks like this:

GM = readmatrix('file1'); 
[rowGM, colGM] = size(GM);

SM = readmatrix('file2');
[rowSM, colSM] = size(SM);

for index = 1:rowGM
    for i = 1:rowSM
        if ( strcmp(SM{i, 3}, GM{index, 1}) && isequal(index, str2double(SM{i, 1})) )
            GM{index, end + 1} = SM{i, 1}; % kinda bad
        end
    end
end

What is happening here is that I have 2 input matrices read from file1 and file2. they are saved into variables GM and SM respectively. Based on some strcmp and isequal operations, I append whatever element currently being processed in SM to the corresponding row in GM. I've attatched a pictures to show what GM and SM look like. I've obmitted some sensitive data in the pictures and code, probably making the code above full of errors and the pictures inconsistent for privacy reasons. If it becomes necessary to help aid understanding and answering, I will consider releasing some of the omitted data.

The matrix GM looks like this:

The matrix SM looks like this:

Hopefully, this helps make the code more understandable. I'm checking whether:

1. id_string in the 3rd column of SM matches the id_string of the 1st column of GM
2. if the row number of GM matches the row identifier number, the 1st column of SM

If both of these conditions are satisfied, then I append the row identifier number to the corresponding row in GM.

I saw this post and tehnically, it works with my other code (currently I have this solution in my code above), but boy is not good for what I want to do. The final GM I get looks like this:

The ideal GM that I am looking for looks like this:

Is there any way I can write something that has an appending-behavior like this? Transpose? I'd appreciate any feedback on this.

Thanks in advance.

[KSSV]

It looks like you need not to use loop to achieve this. You may use ismember and get what you want. We can work on it if we data in hand.

Answer 1

[xi]

Don't use "end", because it keeps getting larger when you append. Need to reset it in between the two loops. try below

......

for index = 1:rowGM

count = 0;

for i = 1:rowSM

if ( strcmp(SM{i, 3}, GM{index, 1}) && isequal(index, str2double(SM{i, 1})) )

count = count + 1;

GM{index, count + 1} = SM{i, 1}; % kinda bad

end

end

end