MATLAB: simultaneously append to multiple elements of a cell array

I want开发者_开发问答 to append an item to multiple elements of a cell array, at once, in a loop over the items (to be appended). E.g.

nodes(nodesHere,1) = cellfun(@(x)[x items(i)], nodes(nodesHere,1),'UniformOutput',false);

The elements of nodes might be any array type.

Is there an equivalent way, relying only on indexing, rather than the relatively more expensive closure used above?

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Do you mean something like

x = cell(1,5);
x(1:3) = num2cell([1, 2, 3]);
disp(x);

I know the code won't work for ANY type of array, but it would do the trick if you use mostly numeric data.