making array in for loop

for k = 1:10000
[Score(k), Alignment{k}] = nwalign(p546ref,newones{k});

find_start_stop(Alignment);
find_every_deletion(Alignment);
end

this has "Unable to perform assignment because brace indexing is not supported for variables of this type." error. Why is that?

Score is integer and Alignment is 3x158 char array.

[Shubham Gupta]

Alignment should be a cell type array to use

Alignment{k}  % notice curly paranthesis, it is used cell type arrays.

[Kangkeon Jeon]

but i don't want to do Alignment(k), because every time i run that code, it should give 10 different Alignment of 3x158 char. I want the whole 3x158 char, not each character within one Alignment

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

Maybe prior to the loop define Alignment as a cell array to hold your results:

Alignment = cell(10000,1);

[Shubham Gupta]

But using this means, losing the original data of Alignment which is a char array of (3x158)?