{"id":6662,"date":"2025-07-29T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:28:50","slug":"converting-a-cell-array-of-heterogenous-structures-to-a-structure-array","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2025\/07\/29\/converting-a-cell-array-of-heterogenous-structures-to-a-structure-array\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting a Cell Array of Heterogenous Structures to a Structure Array"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I make a request to a web service I often use, I normally get back a struct array. Now, however, I have received a cell array of structs and I suspect that the structs have different fields.<\/p>\n<p>I need to figure out how to convert this cell array into a homogenous struct array.<\/p>\n<p>Features covered in this <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">code-along<\/a> style video include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><tt>fields<\/tt>, <tt>cellfun<\/tt><\/li>\n<li><tt>struct2table<\/tt><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6376300704112\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Play the video in full screen mode for a better viewing experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2025\/07\/29\/converting-a-cell-array-of-heterogenous-structures-to-a-structure-array\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/30ef4bdb-a999-4ef5-829f-585c4cde30b4\/560a72e7-d34a-4590-8eae-9a51f79f60c8\/1280x720\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">22:20<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<p>      <\/a><\/div>\n<p>When I make a request to a web service I often use, I normally get back a struct array. Now, however, I have received a cell array of structs and I suspect that the structs have different fields.<br \/>\nI&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2025\/07\/29\/converting-a-cell-array-of-heterogenous-structures-to-a-structure-array\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":6668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}