Assign cell elements from a cell array to another cell array

Hi, I have a cell array of size {1x85}. I would like to replace few elements in the first cell array by elements from another cell array. I tried something like a{1}{1:13} = b; b is a cell array of size 13*1 It is giving me '??? The right hand side of this assignment has too few values to satisfy the left hand side.' can some one please help Thanks

Answer 1

[Cedric]

Curly brackets mean "content of" (and generate a comma-separated list when you use them with a range); they don't perform block indexing. If C is a large cell array and D a smaller one with 13 elements, you can replace the block of cells 20 to 32 in C with B as follows:

 C(20:32) = D

[chanukya]

C is a large array of cells. It has 1*85 cells in it. I would like to access each cell array and then replace few words in the particular cell array. With what you said it will just replace entire cells from C.

Answer 2

[chanukya]

A{1}(1:10) = B works good.