Using vertcat for cell array of differing length

I have a 3 x 2 cell array consisting of elements that are vectors 1 x N where N changes. How do I find the vector of minimum length in the cell array and vertically concatenate based on the length of that vector?

[Dyuman Joshi]

Can you show the data?

[Jonas]

it also depends, if you want the minimum length per cell column or if you want all vectors to be cut down to the smallest vector length of all cells. start with

 lengthMatrix=cellfun(@numel,yourCell)

to get a matrix of vector lengths, then continue with eg

minLength=min(lengthMatrix,[],'all')
cellWithCutEntries=cellfun(@(in) in(1:minLength),yourCell)

and a

cell2mat(cellWithCutEntries)

call at the end

this concatenates all vectors off all cells using the minimum length

Answer 1

[KSSV]

% Make dummy data for demo 
A = cell(3,2) ; 
for i = 1:3
    for j = 1:2
        N = randperm(10,1) ; 
        A{i,j} = rand(1,N) ; 
    end
end
% Get length 
L = cellfun(@numel,A) ; 
% Join L < 5 arrays 
idx = L < 5 ; % GEt indices of cell arrays whos length is less than 5 
B = A(idx) ;
iwant = horzcat(B{:}) % join the cell arrays