MATLAB^®

cellstr - Create cell array of strings from character array

Syntax

c = cellstr(S)

c = cellstr(S) places each row of the character array S into separate cells of c. Any trailing spaces in the rows of S are removed.

Use the char function to convert back to a string matrix.

Given the string matrix

S = ['abc '; 'defg'; 'hi  ']

S =
    abc
    defg
    hi

whos S
  Name      Size         Bytes  Class
  S         3x4             24  char array

The following command returns a 3-by-1 cell array.

c = cellstr(S)

c = 
    'abc' 
    'defg'
    'hi'

whos c
  Name      Size         Bytes  Class
  c         3x1            294  cell array