How to find the maximum length in a structure of vectors?

I have a struct, fem. One of its field is a cell (fem.Element) and I want to find the maximum length of fem.Element.

Thanks in advance, André

Answer 1

[AXL]

I solved using this: max(cellfun(@length,fem.Element);

Answer 2

[Precise Simulation]

If by "maximum length" you mean the number of struct entries, then you can just use one of the standard length, numel, or size commands

   length(fem)
   numel(fem)
   size(fem)

If you mean the maximum value in each struct entry you could use something like

   mx_all = cellfun(@max,struct2cell(fem))
   mx = max(mx_all(:))

[AXL]

I mean the maximum length in one struct field. I can use this because not all the fields are struct and I get the message:

 % Non-scalar in Uniform output, at index 3, output 1. Set 'UniformOutput' to false.

[AXL]

I solved it using this: max(cellfun(@length,fem.Element);

But really thanks! I'm not used to work with cells.