How to combine multiple columns into a single column?

I have a dataset of 12 rows and 163 columns, but how can I make convert it into a single column? e.g., [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 1 2 3; 4 5 6 7; 8 9 1 2; 3 4 5 6]

This is a 6x4 matrix, how can convert it to a single column like 1 5 9 4 8 3 2 6 1 5 9 4 3 7 2 6 1 5 4 8 3 7 2 6

But note that I have 163 columns in reality, so is there any general method to convert 163 columns to a single column? Thanks.

[malladi siva kumari]

In simple way....

variable (a) = [ [1 2 3 4; 5 6 7 8; 9 1 2 3; 4 5 6 7; 8 9 1 2; 3 4 5 6]]

a =

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

9 1 2 3

4 5 6 7

8 9 1 2

3 4 5 6

alinear = a(:)

alinear =

1

5

9

4

8

3

2

6

1

5

9

4

3

7

2

6

1

5

4

8

3

7

2

6

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A=[ 1 2 3 4
    5 6 7 8
    9 1 2 3]  
out=A(:)

or

out=reshape(A,[],1)

[Cloris]

Thank you so much！

Answer 2

[Mischa Kim]

Cloris, use reshape

 datacol = reshape(data, 12*163, [])

[SARA Hosseini]

How to do it for 3*1000 matrix an I want the 3 rows be in just one row for example if it is A=[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9 ... ] I want it to be B=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .....]

Answer 3

[Shubham Gorule]

let matrix be A then perform following steps

X=A(:)

Y=X'

you wil get desired result assigned to variable Y.