Creating a tabular - maybe using cell ?

[AlbFrigerio]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to use cells to create something like a tabular,
but I cannot reach it. Here it is my problem, I've got a tabular whose lines
are of the form [string string float float integer float] , which is updated
in a for loop.

I'd like to create in Octave something like a tabular representing my input,
so that I can add a line or access - for example - all the elements in the
first column by typing tabular{:,1} .

I tried to make something like

a={}; # a = cell(0,6);
for i=1:5
b={"hello","world",.1 .2 3 .4};
a={a;b};
end

but I don't reach something useful. I could use
a={}; # a = cell(0,6);
for i=1:5
b={"hello","world",.1 .2 3 .4}; # in real example this one changes at every
i in the loop
for j=1:6
a{i,j}=b{j};
end
end

but I hope it may exist a faster way!!

Moreover, I'd like the command www = a{:,1} to give me the matrix ["hello" ;
"hello" ; "hello" ; "hello" ;"hello"] but I only got the last result.

Thank you so much, have a nice day,

  Alberto
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