MATLAB: How to automatically create struct-fields from a cell array

Question

Hello folks,

it's late and I'm not able to figure out how this works. I use an optimizer which passes some parameter values to my mathematical model. However, the model reads all parameters out of struct-fields and I have to transform the double vector before the model can actually the values. Currently, I do this transformation manually:

function [p] = MakeStruct(parameter)
p.parameter1 = parameter(1);
.
. 
p.parameter34 = parameter(34);
end

which of course is suboptimal because when I change a parameter or its name I have to go through the code and change it in several places. Does anybody know, how I can make this automatically?

When I create the parameters, my script also returns a 1×34 cell array with all parameter names. So far, I tried to combine both the cell array with all names and the double array with all values with "cell2struct" but it didn't worked for me.

Cheers

Answer 1

Figured it out on my own. For anyone who's interested:

% conversion of to double arrays to a 1x1 struct with fieldnames from 'parameter_names' and fieldvalues from 'parameter_values'
parameter_values = [2 3];                             % double array
parameter_cell   = num2cell(parameter);               % conversion of double array to cell array
parameter_names  = {'qmax', 'kS'};                    % cell array
p = cell2struct(parameter_cell, parameter_names , 2); % conversion of both cell arrays to 1x1 struct