MATLAB Concatenate matrices with unequal dimensions

Question

Is there any easy way to concatenate matrices with unequal dimensions using zero padding?

short = [1 2 3]\';
long = [4 5 6 7]\';
desiredResult = horzcat(shor         


        

Answer 1

Matlab automatically does padding when writing to a non-existent element of a matrix. Therefore, another very simple way of doing this is the following:

short=[1;2;3];

long=[4;5;6;7];

short(1:length(long),2)=long;