What's a less repetitive way to convert c structs to matlab structs? -

i have c structure need convert matlab structure. fields have different types, , arrays. i'm looking way has minimum boilerplate/repeated information.

typedef struct {   uint32 time ;   double px[2]; } data_s;  data_s   s;     mxarray *fieldval      ,         *structarrayptr;  structarrayptr = mxcreatestructmatrix(1, 1, numfields, fieldnames); 

i'm trying replace following, repetitive.

fieldval = mxcreatenumericmatrix(1, 1, mxuint32_class, mxreal); mxgetdata(fieldval)[0] = s.time; mxsetfield(structarrayptr, 0, "time", fieldval);  fieldval = mxcreatenumericmatrix(1, 2, mxdouble_class, mxreal); mxgetdata(fieldval)[0] = s.px[0]; mxgetdata(fieldval)[1] = s.px[1]; mxsetfield(structarrayptr, 0, "px", fieldval); 

the idea this.

typedef struct {     char *name ;     int   type ;     int   arity; } fields_s;  const fields_s fields[] = {     {"time", mxuint32_class, 1},     {"px"  , mxdouble_class, 2} };  void *tmp;  (i = 0; < numfields; i++) {     fieldval = mxcreatenumericmatrix(1, fields[i].arity, fields[i].type, mxreal);     switch (i) {         case 0: tmp = &(s.time); break;         case 1: tmp =   s.px   ; break; // don't take address of arrays     }      // hmm, can't sizeof() on dereferenced void*.       // solution other repeating field name?     // , make bad assumptions data representation being same?     memcpy(mxgetdata(fieldval), tmp, sizeof(*tmp) * fields[i].arity);      mxsetfield(structarrayptr, 0, fields[i].name, fieldval); } 

even if work, unsatisfying because have manually line field names , have use different syntax depending on whether each array.