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    <refnamediv>
        <refname>num2cell</refname>
        <refpurpose>converts an array into a cell array</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>Syntax</title>
        <synopsis>
            y=num2cell(x [,dims])
        </synopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsection>
        <title>Arguments</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>x</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a real, an integer, a boolean or a string matrix
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>dims</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a scalar or a vector of positive integers
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>y</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>a cell
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>num2cell</function> converts <varname>x</varname> which is a real, a boolean, or a string matrix into a cell.
            If <varname>dims</varname> is not mentioned, <varname>y</varname> will have the same size as <varname>x</varname>.
        </para>
        <para>
            But if <varname>dims</varname> is present, the dimensions of <varname>x</varname> mentioned in <varname>dims</varname>
            will be reduced to 1. Moreover, the dimensions of <varname>y</varname> components will be equal to the dimensions sizes of
            <varname>x</varname> whose numbers are in <varname>dims</varname> vector.
        </para>
        <para>
            For example, if size(<varname>x</varname>)=[2 3 4 5 6] and <varname>dims</varname>=[2 4], then size(<varname>y</varname>)=
            [2 1 4 1 6], that is the sizes of the second and the fourth dimensions are reduced to 1. And size(<varname>y</varname>(i))=
            [1 3 1 5 1], which means that the sizes of the second and the fourth dimensions are equal to the sizes of the second and the
            fourth ones of <varname>x</varname>.
        </para>
    </refsection>
    <refsection>
        <title>Examples</title>
        <programlisting role="example">
            A = [1 2; 3 4]
            num2cell(A)
            M = matrix(1:24, [2 3 2 2])
            c=num2cell(M,[1 2])
            size(c)
            size(c{1})

            A = ["a", "b"; "c" "d"]
            num2cell(A)
        </programlisting>
    </refsection>
    <refsection role="see also">
        <title>See also</title>
        <simplelist type="inline">
            <member>
                <link linkend="cell">cell</link>
            </member>
            <member>
                <link linkend="cell2mat">cell2mat</link>
            </member>
        </simplelist>
    </refsection>
</refentry>
