How to locate the index of cell array that has highest element value?

Hi All

I have a main cell array (matrix) that contains several cell arrays. Is it possible to locate the index of cell array that has highest third element. In other word want to know whcih cell array has the highest value locaed in third element.

Best regards

Aziz

Answer 1

[Sulaymon Eshkabilov]

You can do it with sort() and by manipulating your main cell array a little bit. See this plain example:

A{1,1}=1; A{2,1}=5; A{3,1}=2; A{4,1}=13; A{5,1}=7; A{6,1}=1i; A{7,1}=0;
B={A} 
[Bsorted, idx] = sort(cell2mat(B{:}), 'descend')
IDX_max=idx(1)            % Max value's INDEX 
B_max = B{1}(IDX_max)    

You may also consider this matlab script published in MATLAB central: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13770-sorting-a-cell-array

[Abdulaziz Abutunis]

Thank you Sulaymon,

I was able to handle it with regular matrx. Though you suggestion seems valid

Regards

Aziz