Comparing two structures and find the common

I need to compare two strctures and find the common between them and then keep the common fields as the new structure.

[Geoff Hayes]

Praveen - please clarify what you mean by the common between them. Do the structures have fields that you want to compare? Or something else? Please provide a small example.

[Praveen Kumar Pakkirisamy]

For example

structure 1='field1','field2','field3';

structure 2='field1','field4','field3';

The common between them is field1 and field 3 and i want to write that in structure 1.

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

structure_1={'field1','field2','field3'};
structure_2={'field1','field4','field3'};
structure_1=intersect(structure_1,structure_2)

[madhan ravi]

Sir Walter has given the answer already before 24mins..

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

common_fields = intersect( fieldnames(structure1), fieldnames(structure2));
for fn = common_fields
    this = fn{1};
    new_struct(1).(this) = structure1.(this);
    new_struct(2).(this) = structure2.(this);
end