MATLAB: How to remove a specific number of elements from a cell array and place them into another cell array

Question

If I have, for example…

a = [1 , 2 ,3 ,4] and b = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j'}

how can I remove the number of elements in b that correspond to the value in a and place them into new cell arrays?

I want to get the new cell arrays…

A1 = {'a'}

A2 = {'b','c'}

A3 = {'d','e','f'}

A4 = {'g','h','i','j'}

a and b do not matter after this is done.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Don't think of dynamically naming variables use cells instead:

A=mat2cell(b,1,[1 2 3 4]);
celldisp(A)