How can I concatenate cell arrays of a cell array into one single column?

I have a cell array of data that contains cell arrays of varying length. The number of cells within the cell array will be changing depending on the file I am reading. The data within the cells are characters of varying length. I need to combine all cell arrays within the cell array into one column. I feel like this should be very simple but I have been unable to successfully do it. The code follows:

for i = 1:length(name_cells)

    all = name_cells{i,:}(:);

end

This code outputs only the last cell array of course. So when I try this, I get an error message:

for i = 1:length(name_cells)

    all(i) = name_cells{i,:}(:);

end

error: Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.

I realize the indexes don't match being the arrays are of different length, but I don't know of any other way to do this as I am fairly new to Matlab. The data within name_cells looks like this:

'bck2del::kan_whi5del::CaURA3'

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jan]

Describing the input data as text is not really useful. Better post some code which creates an equivalent piece of the data.

Answer 1

[Jan]

I guess, how you data look like:

name_cells = {{'a'; 'b'; 'c'}, {'d'}, {'e'; 'f'}};

Then:

nameCol = cat(1, name_cells{:})

creates:

{ 'a'; 'b'; 'c'; 'd'; 'e'; 'f'}

Is this wanted? If not, please post some input and output data.

[Eric Kudlow]

Yes that is exactly what I needed. Thank you so much. I can't believe I couldn't figure that out myself.

[Syahmeer How]

Thanks for the code Jan!!