Is there another way to write test{1,1:10}=' ' ?

Because obviously test{1,1:10}=' ' doesn't work:

"The right hand side of this assignment has too few values to satisfy the left hand side."

I had previously done test=cell(1,10) but ideally I want some sort of blank value in there that's not [] so when I later do a char() on each entry in the cell it won't complain that it can't do it.

[Megna Hari]

Also, I dont want a for loop like this:

for i=1:10

    test{1,i}='';

end

because it takes too long and this is going to be in a function that gets called approximately 1,870,000 times using cellfun.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

test(1,1:10) = {' '}

[Megna Hari]

Thank you! That's exactly what I want :)

Answer 2

[Jan]

Or shorter, if all elements are wanted:

test = cell(1,10);
test(:) = {' '};

Or:

test = repmat({' '}, 1, 10);