MATLAB: How do you create an array with multiple rows in one line

MATLABmatrix array

I'm struggling with something that seems like it should be very simple. I'm trying to create an array of 3×3 matrices. I see that I can do something like:
A = [1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9]
A(:,:,2) = [9,8,7; 6,5,4; 3,2,1]
How do I do that in one line? I thought that something like this would work:
A = [[1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9]; [9,8,7; 6,5,4; 3,2,1]]
But that creates a 6×3 matrix. And this creates a 3×6 matrix:
A = [[1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9] [9,8,7; 6,5,4; 3,2,1]]
I've tried other variations and read documentation, but am at a loss here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Best Answer

I'm not aware of a shorthand way to do this. You can consult the documentation here.
One way could be to use reshape followed by a transpose. Not sure that really buys you anything, though.
A = pagetranspose(reshape([1,2,3, 4,5,6, 7,8,9, 9,8,7, 6,5,4, 3,2,1],3,3,2))
A = 
A(:,:,1) =

     1     2     3
     4     5     6
     7     8     9


A(:,:,2) =

     9     8     7
     6     5     4
     3     2     1
Another option is to use cat to combine the two matrices in the 3rd dimension.
A2 = cat(3,[1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9], [9,8,7; 6,5,4; 3,2,1])
A2 = 
A2(:,:,1) =

     1     2     3
     4     5     6
     7     8     9


A2(:,:,2) =

     9     8     7
     6     5     4
     3     2     1
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