Thread Subject: avoiding loop for defining all elements of a structure ??

I have a structure with 25 entries:

a(1).start
a(2).start
...
a(25).start

I want to define all of these to be zeros(1,5)

But a(:).start=zeros(1,5) doesn't work

Is there a way to do this WITHOUT loops or converting to cells or matrices ??

"Juliette Salexa" <juliette.physicist@gmail.com> wrote in message <h4ijsj$pq2$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have a structure with 25 entries:
>
> a(1).start
> a(2).start
> ...
> a(25).start
>
> I want to define all of these to be zeros(1,5)
>
> But a(:).start=zeros(1,5) doesn't work
>
> Is there a way to do this WITHOUT loops or converting to cells or matrices ??

a hint:

     help deal;
     help struct; % <- look at the CELL mode

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