Create Structure

[Thomas D. Dean]

I have a character array with 156 names and a corresponding array of values;

octave:341> a=["n1";"n2";"n3"]
octave:342> b=[1;2;3]
octave:343> x=struct(a(1,1:2),b(1),a(2,1:2),b(2),a(3,1:2),b(3))
octave:344> x
x =

  scalar structure containing the fields:

    n1 =  1
    n2 =  2
    n3 =  3

Is there a function to do this?  Do I have to go to an oct file?

I have looked at cellfun, and structfun, but, could not make either 
work.  Most likely, I do not understand this...

Tom Dean