HOW TO COMBINE TWO CELLS INTO ONE?

Hello everyone

I have to arrays witch I want to combine:

M=[ 1 2 4 7 8 9].';
Y=[2018 2018 2018 2018 2018].';

and I want to get

[1-2018
4-2018
...] and so

how can I do this?

Tnx

[Adam]

They don't look like cell arrays, just numeric arrays.

Also

1-2018

is not a valid value to have in a numeric array.

You can concatenate two column vectors easily as

[M, Y]

if they are the same length, but you'll still have two columns. You'd have to format them into a string if you literally want '1-2018'

Answer 1

[dpb]

As Adam notes, you have two arrays as shown (I took the liberty to reformat the original Q? to make more legible) and there's a mismatch in lengths so can't directly...that's probably just a typo in the posting one presumes.

Given they're month and year values, I'd suggest to convert to datetime instead; you can get the display format to be whatever you wish and do all kinds of magic with the values once have done...

t=datetime(Y,M,1,'Format','M-yyyy');

Example:

>> datetime(2018,[1;4],1,'Format','M-yyyy')
ans = 
  2×1 datetime array
   1-2018
   4-2018
>>