cs-lists, structure arrays ....

[Shai Ayal]

Hi all,

I'm getting a bit lost in the list/cell/structure constructs. My data is 
most naturally adapted to be in a array of structures:

data(1).name="Shai"
data(1).height=189
data(1).weight="undisclosed"

data(2).name="....

now, how do I extract the heights of everyone ?

data(:).height gives me a "cs-list" type which is no-where documented and I 
can't seem to convert it to a vector (or in fact to anything). The only way 
I found is using a for loop on the structure array

hh=zeros(1,length(data));
for i=1:length(data), hh(i)=data(i).height; endfor

but this is not very "comfortable".

Also, if you have any suggestions on better data-structures to hold this 
kind of data feel free

Shai




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