MATLAB: Convert Cell to Matrix

Question

Let' say, I have cell_A: 5×1 cell

cell_A={ [] ; [1] ; [5];  []  ; [2]};

How can I convert it to be matrix? 5-by-1 matrix

result_matrix=[ []; 1;  5 ;  [] ;  2 ];

Answer 1

As sir Walter mentioned already , you cannot have holes in matrices . So you could replace them with nans perhaps:

cell_A(cellfun('isempty',cell_A)) = {NaN};
Matrix = cell2mat(cell_A)