Assign multiple fields to a Struct-Array

hi, I'm new to struct Arrays and I've got the following problem:

 filelist(:).names = upper(filelist(:).names);

somehow I cannot figure out how to tell matlab to assign each result of the upper function to one entry in the filelist. I'm sure that there's a simple solution but I understand how until now

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

filelist(1).names='a';
filelist(2).names='b';
a=upper({filelist.names});

[filelist.names]=deal(a{:})

[Andrei Bobrov]

+1

[filelist.names]=a{:}

[Fangjun Jiang]

Thanks, andrei! deal or no deal!

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

for j1 = numel(filelist):-1:1
   filelist(j1).names=upper(filelist(j1).names); 
end

variant with arrayfun and others

filelist = ...
 cell2struct(arrayfun(@(x)upper(x.names),filelist,'un',0),fieldnames(filelist));

Answer 3

[Vincent]

Is there also a solution avoiding the loop?

[Jan]

Why do you want to avoid the loop??

[Vincent]

less lines, nicer code and isn't it often faster to use vecorization (if possible)

anyway thank you very much for your nice answers!

[Fangjun Jiang]

So, is my answer above what you are looking for?