cell2nestedstruct

CELL2NESTEDSTRUCT converts an MxN cell array into a nested 1x1 structure array

CELL2NESTEDSTRUCT provides an alternative method of constructing nested structures. It can be used with NESTEDSTRUCT2CELL (also available at MATLAB Central) for editing and visualizing 1x1 nested structures.

Example:

C = {'water' 'a' '' '' '' 111;...
'water' 'b' '' '' '' 222;...
'melon' '' '' '' '' [];...
'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' 'e' 'aaa';...
'q' 'r' '' '' '' cell(6,2)};
[S] = cell2nestedstruct(C);
[C2] = nestedstruct2cell(S);
isequal(C,C2)

ans =

1

S =
water: [1x1 struct]
melon: []
a: [1x1 struct]
q: [1x1 struct]

The structure is produced row-by-row using the general syntax:
S.row1.row2. ... rowN-1 = rowN;
Thus the following row of the cell array: {'water' 'a' '' '' '' 111}
is equivalent to entering:
S.water.a = 111;