Chapter 8
Data Structures: Cell Arrays and Structures
Contents
8.1. Cell Arrays
8.2. Structures
Key words
data structures
cell array
structures
fields
database
record
content indexing
cell indexing
comma-separated list
vector of structures
nested structure
Data structures are variables that store more than one value. For it to make sense to store more than one value in a variable, the values should somehow be logically related. There are many different kinds of data structures. We have already been working with one kind, arrays (e.g., vectors and matrices). An array is a data structure in which all of the values are logically related in that they are of the same type, and represent in some sense “the same thing.” So far, that has been true ...
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