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The simplest way to process data in a structure is within a for
loop (see Looping Over Structure Elements). A similar effect can be
achieved with the structfun function, where a user defined
function is applied to each field of the structure.
See structfun.
Alternatively, to process the data in a structure, the structure might be converted to another type of container before being treated.
Create a new cell array from the objects stored in the struct object.
If f is the number of fields in the structure, the resulting
cell array will have a dimension vector corresponding to
[F size(S)]. For example:
s = struct ("name", {"Peter", "Hannah", "Robert"},
"age", {23, 16, 3});
c = struct2cell (s)
⇒ c = {2x1x3 Cell Array}
c(1,1,:)(:)
⇒
{
[1,1] = Peter
[2,1] = Hannah
[3,1] = Robert
}
c(2,1,:)(:)
⇒
{
[1,1] = 23
[2,1] = 16
[3,1] = 3
}
See also: cell2struct, fieldnames.