How to do if condition on the type of data

Hi all,

I want to creat if condition in MATLAB in a way that if type of my data is cell, do something and else, do something else. I know that type of data can be determined using class(data). Would you please guide me in this regard?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

%preparation
if rand() < 0.5
    C = 23;
else
    C = {23, 'skidoo'};
end

%now we need to know the type of C to progress
if iscell(C)
    disp('was cell')
    output = C{1} * 2;
else
    disp('was not cell')
    output = C(1) * 2;
end

was cell

output

output = 46