Exploiting MATLAB's Data Structures

Structures

Usage: Structures are used to aggregate information of varying types, such as a database might contain.

Example:

	db.name = 'Clay'
	db.height = 183
	db.birthorder = 1
	db, db.name, db.height

Problem #6 - Structures & Comma-Separated Lists

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Specialized structure functions

struct	Create/convert to a structure
fieldnames	Fieldnames in a structure
isfield	True if field exists
cell2struct	Convert cell array into a structure
struct2cell	Convert structure into cell array

• Structures are arrays too. They can have sizes greater than 1-by-1.
• When more than one element is accessed at a time a comma-separated list is produced.

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