Concatenating a numeric matrix with a 1xn cell - arrays

Question

When trying the following concatenation:
for i=1:1:length(Open)
data(i,1) = Open(i);
data(i,2) = Close(i);
data(i,3) = High(i);
data(i,4) = Low(i);
data(i,5) = Volume(i);
data(i,6) = Adj_Close(i);
data(i,7) = cell2mat(dates(1,i));
end
Where all matrices but dates contain double values, and dates is a cell array with dates in the format '2001-01-01'. Running the code above, I get the following error:
??? Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.
Error in ==> Test_Trades_part2 at 81
data(i,7) = cell2mat(dates(1,i));
The code above is tied to a master code which takes data from Yahoo Finance and then puts it in my SQL database.

Answer 1

A convenient way to store dates in completely numeric format is with datenum:
>> data(i,7) = datenum('2001-01-01');
>> disp(data(i,:))
0 0 0 0 0 0 730852
Whether this is useful to you depends on what you intend to do with the SQL database. Howeer, converting back to a string with MATLAB is straightforward with the datestr command:
>> datestr(730852,'yyyy-mm-dd')
ans =
2001-01-01
APPENDIX:
A serial date number represents a calendar date as the number of days that has passed since a fixed base date. In MATLAB, serial date number 1 is January 1, 0000.

Answer 2

Thank you all for the help!
I solved this issue using the following methodlogy (incorporating structs, should have thought of that .. stupid me):
data = [open, close_price, high, low, volume, closeadj];
s = struct('OpenPrice', data(:,1), 'ClosePrice', data(:,2), 'High', data(:,3), 'Low', data(:,4), 'Volume', data(:,5), 'Adj_Close', data(:,6), 'Dates', {dates});
This way, I enter all the values contained in the struct, circumventing the need to concatenate numeric and string matrices. Odd though, that is not allowed to have such matrices in on matrix; I would suppose that is the reason they created structs.