Structure items as vectors?

[David Bateman]

Schirmacher, Rolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to use structured information for numerical computations. I have a
> structure like
>
> octave.exe> some.data.structure(1).item = 1;
> octave.exe> some.data.structure(2).item = 2;
>
> and later on, I want to do calculations with a vector of "item"s. What I get
> is a list like
>
> octave.exe> some.data.structure.item
> ans =
>
> (,
>   [1] =  1
>   [2] =  2
> ,)
>
> octave.exe> some.data.structure(:).item
> ans =
>
> (,
>   [1] =  1
>   [2] =  2
> ,)
>
>
> On the other hand, I can access the individual elements as scalars like
>
> octave.exe> some.data.structure(1).item
> ans =  1
>
>
> How can I retrive the data as a vector, i.e. overcome such errors most
> easily? 
>
> octave.exe> items_doubled = 2 .* some.data.structure(:).item
> error: binary operator `.*' not implemented for `scalar' by `cs-list'
> operations
> error: evaluating binary operator `.*' near line 59, column 19
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 59, column 15
>
>   

The returned value above is a comma-separated list in exactly the same
manner as Matlab returns the above. Try "[some.data.structure.item]",
which converts your comma seperated list into a matrix. Or if you can't
be sure the data is numeric, try "{some.data.structure.item}" which
converts it to a cell array.

D.





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