How to inverse a cell array and treating cell arrays like matrices

Hi,

I'm using a creation of my own data type. It isnt currently compatible with arrays so things must be done wit for loops instead.

Im looking to find the inverse/pseudo inverse using pinv() of a cell array. Does anyone know how to do this?

Kind regards,

JP

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

You first need to convert the cell array to a numeric matrix before calling inv() or pinv(). For example

x = {1 2; 2 1};
x_inv = inv(cell2mat(x));

Result:

>> x_inv
x_inv =
   -0.3333    0.6667
    0.6667   -0.3333

[Jinay Patel]

I tried that but the class type I'm working with cannot be converted to a double. My cell array is filled with cells. Is there a way to invert this whilst keeping all the entries as cells?

[Ameer Hamza]

Can you share a sample example of your data in a mat file?