MATLAB: Having problems with deal assignment function

Question

I am using

 if option ==2
   for ii= 1:size(search_9,2)
       ii;
        temp= x.event(ii).epochtype;
        if search_9(ii)+7 <= size(x.event,2)                %(ii+7) is the wrong syntax, use (ii)+7 to specify elements from ii to 11+7 
           if search_9(ii)-4 >= size(x.event,1);            %had to change from x.event.epochtype to x.event
                change_data = search_9(ii) + [-4:7];
                    [x.event(change_data).epochtype] = deal(5:16);
                end                          
           end
        end
        %disp([temp x.event(ii).epochtype]);
    end
end

The search_9 function is defined earlier and looks for 9 in the specified structure.

the deal function is causing each of the index that is being specified to get 5:16, so it takes index 17 and replaces that number with 5:16. Is there another function that i could use or any way that i could fix it.

Answer 1

Before loop:

NewVal = num2cell(5:16);

In loop:

[x.event(change_data).epochtype] = NewVal{:};