convert cell array to structure with first row as field names

Hi, I have a cell array of 1800 X 920 where first 2 rows are characters. I would like to convert this to a structure with the first row as fields. How to do that?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Use cell2struct, possibly something like this (where C is your cell array):

S = cell2struct(C(2:end,:),C(1,:),1)

[Andrei Bobrov]

Maybe

S = cell2struct(a(2:end,:),a(1,:),2);

[dpreuben]

Hi Thanks a lot, In principle this command is working. However, some of my headers have dots and underscores like name.a_b. and it is giving an error as "Invalid field name". How to get around this? Thanks

[Stephen23]

You could either pasrse the names to remove any unsupported characters (e.g. regular expression), or simply use genvarname (or its recommended replacements):

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/genvarname.html

[dpreuben]

Thanks Stephen