cell arrays matlab,How does one concatenate cell arrays that are part of a cell array in MATLAB?

There are a few more details about your cell contents that would be needed for a more general solution, but if the names property always returns a cell array of strings, and if your structures are all scalars (i.e. 1-by-1 structure arrays), then the following solution using CELLFUN, CHAR, and CELLSTR will give you an N-by-1 cell array of strings allNames containing all of your names:

allNames = cellfun(@(x) {char(x.names)},allData);

allNames = cellstr(char(allNames{:}));

And here's an example where allData contains three different structures:

>> allData{1} = struct('names',{{'hello'}},'junk',1:3);

>> allData{2} = struct('names',{{'hi' 'yo' 'hey' 'whassup'}});

>> allData{3} = struct('names',{{'howdy';'aloha'}},'junk',4);

>> allNames = cellfun(@(x) {char(x.names)},allData);

>> allNames = cellstr(char(allNames{:}))

allNames =

'hello'

'hi'

'yo'

'hey'

'whassup'

'howdy'

'aloha'

EDIT:

Generalizing to the case where the names property returns a cell array of objects, not necessarily strings, you can try this solution which reshapes each cell array into an M-by-1 cell array, then vertically concatenates all of them into an N-by-1 cell array of objects:

allNames = cellfun(@(x) {reshape(x.names,[],1)},allData);

allNames = vertcat(allNames{:});

Or, if you would rather end up with a 1-by-N cell array of objects, you can do this:

allNames = cellfun(@(x) {reshape(x.names,1,[])},allData);

allNames = [allNames{:}];