vertcat on a cell array and a double array

I have a 1x601 cell array containing text and a 1019x601 double matrix. I am trying to merge the arrays using vertcat but I get "dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent." Theoretically I should get a matrix that is 1020x601. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

[José-Luis]

It might mean that not all the strings in the cell array have the same length and therefore you cannot concatenate them.

Answer 1

[Amy Haskins]

You need to work with cell arrays in order to support mixed numeric and string data. To use vertcat, convert the double matrix to a cell first.

Example:

A = rand(5);
B = {'apple','pear','banana','orange','peach'};
vertcat(num2cell(A),B)

Answer 2

[Cary]

many thanks!