MATLAB: Concatenate cells containing strings

Question

Hello,

I need to concatenate cells to obtain new strings within a new cell array.

For example I have cells A and B

A={'hello', 'hi',  'goodbye'};
B={' how are you', ' see you later'};

and want to obtain

message =
  2×1 cell array
    {'hello how are you'    }
    {'goodbye see you later'}

I manage to do this using loops

index=[1 3];
for i=1:length(index)
    message{i}=[A{index(i)} B{i}];
end

Is there a more efficient way to do this? I never manage to figure out how to avoid loops, this is a short example but in reality I have much bigger cells.

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

As long as you have two cell arrays with the same size, you can do this:

strcat(A(index),B)