MATLAB: Assign cell elements from a cell array to another cell array

Question

Hi, I have a cell array of size {1×85}. I would like to replace few elements in the first cell array by elements from another cell array. I tried something like a{1}{1:13} = b; b is a cell array of size 13*1 It is giving me '??? The right hand side of this assignment has too few values to satisfy the left hand side.' can some one please help Thanks

Answer 1

Curly brackets mean "content of" (and generate a comma-separated list when you use them with a range); they don't perform block indexing. If C is a large cell array and D a smaller one with 13 elements, you can replace the block of cells 20 to 32 in C with B as follows:

 C(20:32) = D