MATLAB Programming

Characters and Strings
For details on cell arrays, see “Cell Arrays” on page 2-94.
Converting to a Cell Array of Strings
The cellstr function converts a character array into a cell array of strings.
Consider the character array
data = ['Allison Jones';'Development ';'Phoenix '];
Each row of the matrix is padded so that all have equal length (in this case,
13 characters).
Now use cellstr to create a column vector of cells, each cell containing one
of the strings from the data array:
celldata = cellstr(data)
celldata =
'Allison Jones'
'Development'
'Phoenix'
Note that the cellstr function strips off the blanks that pad the rows of the
input string matrix:
length(celldata{3})
ans =
7
The iscellstr function determines if the input argument is a cell array of
strings. It returns a logical 1 (true) inthecaseofcelldata:
iscellstr(celldata)
ans =
1
Use char to convert back to a standard padded character array:
strings = char(celldata)
strings =
Allison Jones
Development
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