How to automatically create variables which are column extracts from a matrix

Question

I have an n*n matrix and I want to extract every 3 columns and keep the result in different variables.

I know that it is possible to do it in this way:

Answer 1

You can use:

C = mat2cell(A,size(A,1),ones(size(A,2)/3,1)*3);

It will split your matrix into subcells.

You can access the information contained by those cells with:

C{1}
C{2}  %and so on