Applying a Function to Every Element of a List

I have a function taking 2 input values, say f(x,y) and a list, say L=[L1 L2 ... Ln]

How can I get the list L'=[f(L1,a) f(L2,a) ... f(L3,a)] where a is just a constant?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

arrayfun(@(x) f(x,a),L,'un',0)

read

doc arrayfun
doc cellfun

Example

L=randi(10,1,10)
out=arrayfun(@(x) max(x,5),L)

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

f2 = @(x,y)bsxfun(str2func(vectorize(func2str(f))),x,y.');

out = f2(1:4,2:4); % example