Fill cell array with consecutive numbers in Matlab -
given mycellarray{10,3} = []; , fill in first column consecutive numbers (let's 1 through 10). know this: [mycellarray{1:10,1}] = deal(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) mycellarray = [ 1] [] [] [ 2] [] [] [ 3] [] [] [ 4] [] [] [ 5] [] [] [ 6] [] [] [ 7] [] [] [ 8] [] [] [ 9] [] [] [10] [] [] however, if cell array larger (say 1,000 rows rather 10), writing out comma-separated values becomes tedious: [mycellarray{1:10,1}] = deal(1,2,3, ... ,1000) is there way create comma-separated "list" of numbers automatically? (1:10) ? know assign values via loops, there elegant one-line solution or close that? this 1 way num2cell - mycellarray(:,1) = num2cell(1:size(mycellarray,1)) in place of num2cell , can use mat2cell might not elegant though - mat2cell([1:size(mycellarray,1)]',ones(1,size(mycellarray,1)),1)