How to get all the elements of a structure into single array, in Matlab?

 %Structure definition


% Case 1: Each element in the structure has same number of columns but different
% number of rows.
a(1).res = ones(4,2)*100;
a(2).res = ones(2,2)*2;
a(3).res = ones(3,2)*40;
a(4).res = ones(5,2)*253;

% For Case 1, [a.res] = horzcat will not work because it requires rows of
% all the elements in the structure to be equal. However, we can do
% vertical concatenation as columns of all the elements are equal.

vertCatAres = vertcat(a.res)

%Case 2: Each element in the structure has same number of rows but
%different number of columns
a(1).res = ones(2,4)*100;
a(2).res = ones(2,2)*2;
a(3).res = ones(2,3)*40;
a(4).res = ones(2,5)*253;
horzCatAres = [a.res] % horzcat(a.res)

%Results
vertCatAres =
   100   100
   100   100
   100   100
   100   100
     2     2
     2     2
    40    40
    40    40
    40    40
   253   253
   253   253
   253   253
   253   253
   253   253

horzCatAres =
   100   100   100   100     2     2    40    40    40   253   253   253   253   253
   100   100   100   100     2     2    40    40    40   253   253   253   253   253

How to create 'structures' in Matlab?

Example: Following command creates a structure with various fields with different data types.

struct('ifData', zeros(1, 1000), 'fSamp', 10e6, 'fif',0.42e6, 'noOfBits',16,'complexOrReal','complex','prn',10)



>> struct('ifData', zeros(1, 1000), 'fSamp', 10e6, 'fif',0.42e6, 'noOfBits',16,'complexOrReal','complex','prn',10)

ans =
           ifData: [1x1000 double]
            fSamp: 10000000
              fif: 420000
         noOfBits: 16
    complexOrReal: 'complex'
              prn: 10