how do I combine only the vectors - Matlab - arrays

Question

How do I combine all the vectors in small subsets of vectors in Matlab?
a= [5 6 7] b = [8 9 10] c=[11 12 13] d=[14 15 16] e=[17 18 19]
a combine with b and c:
Outcome:
M1= [ 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13]
a with b and d:
M2 = [5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16]
and so on .....

Answer 1

This answer covers the case for an arbitrary number of vectors. The vectors are assumed to be row vectors of equal length.
Let your example data be defined as
a = [5 6 7]; b = [8 9 10]; c = [11 12 13]; d = [14 15 16]; e = [17 18 19];
vectors = {a, b, c, d, e}; %// cell array with any number of row vectors of equal size
n = 3; %// desired subset size
Then: generate all combinations of indices, use that to index into vectors, concatenate into one big row vector, and reshape that to obtain the desired result:
combs = nchoosek(1:numel(vectors), n);
result = reshape([vectors{combs.'}], numel(vectors{1})*n, []).';
This gives a matrix whose first row is your M1, second row is M2 etc:
result =
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16
5 6 7 8 9 10 17 18 19
5 6 7 11 12 13 14 15 16
5 6 7 11 12 13 17 18 19
5 6 7 14 15 16 17 18 19
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
8 9 10 11 12 13 17 18 19
8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Answer 2

You can use the cat function:
res = cat(2,a,b,c);
or simply the [] syntax:
res = [a b c];
In both cases, res will contain [5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13].
Best,

Answer 3

Use nchoosek.
a = [5 6 7]; b = [8 9]; c = [11 12 13]; d = [14 15 16]; e = [17 18 19];
N = 3;
x = {a,b,c,d,e};
y = nchoosek(x,N);
And you have all the combination of your arrays taken N at a time in a cell array. Each row i of the cell x is a combination, so to have it back as a row vector just do
horzcat(y{i,:})
Or, if you want to get them all and put them in a cell array of size n_combs
n_combs = size(y,1);
out = cell(0,n_combs);
for i = 1 : n_combs
out{i} = horzcat(1, y{i,:});
end
There is no constraint on the size of the arrays that you want to combine, e.g., you can combine
a = [5 7]; b = [8 9]; c = [11]; d = [20 14 15 16]; e = [17 18 19];
However, if you must put together all the combination in a matrix, then the arrays have to be of the same size. In this case Luis Mendo's answer does the job.
Finally, if repetitions are allowed use nmultichoosek instead of nchoosek.