Comments and Ratings

Thanks jos for the alternative approach that use deal(). The reason that I made this wrapper is to avoid using deal() and make the code self-documenting.

I wish Mathworks can consider allowing syntaxes like [a,b,c]=(struct2cell(S)){:}, then my submission has no reason to be here. :)

Exactly what i needed, works like charm. thanks!

Thanks Duane for the useful comments. I actually thought of spending more time on the help file, but I just find it quite difficult to describe what the program does without an example screenshot that has the structure displayed as a tree. I'll post a screen shot in a day or two, and I'd appreciate any help describing what this program does in simple words.

struct2cell() works for one level structures only. Hence if you have a structed formed by

a.b.c.d = 1
a.p.q.r = 2

struct2cell() will still give you cells that contains structs, which is not what I wanted (basically I want to form a table from a nested struct).

Also, in this context, since I want a list of all possible leaf nodes in a nested struct, using anything other than feval will make the program extremely clumsy. Please let me know if anybody has a better idea :)

I intentionally separate flatStructAccessList() from flatStruct() because some people might just want a list (like tree view) without the computational work putting all the contents into a cell vector.

By the way, "No vector (or cell vector)" should be written as "No non-singleton struct branch allowed". For structs, it's possible to have something like:

a{1}.b=1
a{2}.c=3
p(1).q=2
p(2).q=4

In this case, 'a' is a vector of cells which all the elements are structs, and 'p' is a vector which all the elements are structs. I don't know how to describe them in simple words, so please help!

If you found a good way to describe it, send me a email at wonghoi.ee@gmail.com.