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From: Joao on 10 Aug 2010 14:18
Hi all,

The following cell2mat error is driving me nuts:

??? Error using ==> cat
CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.

Error in ==> cell2mat at 89
m{n} = cat(1,c{:,n});


I have a file, input.txt, that has the names of around 4000 other files which I want to open and read. I'm using the following commands:

[fid, message] = fopen('Input.txt');
[Data] = textscan(fid,'%s');
Filesname = cell2mat(Data{1,1});
fclose(fid);

Does anyone has an idea why this error is happening, I've no clue.

Thanks in advance

Joao
From: Andy on 10 Aug 2010 14:24
"Joao" <janeiro.jm(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <i3s54t$m7a$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> The following cell2mat error is driving me nuts:
>
> ??? Error using ==> cat
> CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.
>
> Error in ==> cell2mat at 89
> m{n} = cat(1,c{:,n});
>
>
> I have a file, input.txt, that has the names of around 4000 other files which I want to open and read. I'm using the following commands:
>
> [fid, message] = fopen('Input.txt');
> [Data] = textscan(fid,'%s');
> Filesname = cell2mat(Data{1,1});
> fclose(fid);
>
> Does anyone has an idea why this error is happening, I've no clue.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joao

cell2mat is intended for cell arrays whose elements are double arrays. Your Data{1,1} apparently is not a cell array of double arrays. And it is unlikely your intention to have a numeric array of file names.
From: Sean on 10 Aug 2010 14:24
"Joao" <janeiro.jm(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <i3s54t$m7a$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> The following cell2mat error is driving me nuts:
>
> ??? Error using ==> cat
> CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent.
>
> Error in ==> cell2mat at 89
> m{n} = cat(1,c{:,n});
>
>
> I have a file, input.txt, that has the names of around 4000 other files which I want to open and read. I'm using the following commands:
>
> [fid, message] = fopen('Input.txt');
> [Data] = textscan(fid,'%s');
> Filesname = cell2mat(Data{1,1});
> fclose(fid);
>
> Does anyone has an idea why this error is happening, I've no clue.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Joao

Try transposing:
Filesname = cell2mat(Data{1,1}');
From: Matt Fig on 10 Aug 2010 14:50
Did you look at what was in Data? It is probably strings with different lengths. Thus you cannot make an array because each row would have a different number of columns. Why not just use:

[fid, message] = fopen('Input.txt');
[Data] = textscan(fid,'%s');
Data = Data{1};

Then whenever you need to open one of the files, say the 3rd one, just do:

fopen(Data{3});


If you really want a character array for some reason, white-space and all, use:

[fid, message] = fopen('Input.txt');
[Data] = textscan(fid,'%s');
char(Data{1})
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