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Cell Arrays

Arrays that can contain data of varying types and sizes

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A cell array is a data type with indexed data containers called cells, where each cell can contain any type of data. Cell arrays commonly contain either lists of text strings, combinations of text and numbers, or numeric arrays of different sizes. Refer to sets of cells by enclosing indices in smooth parentheses, (). Access the contents of cells by indexing with curly braces, {}. For more information, see Access Data in a Cell Array.

MATLAB Functions

cell	Create cell array
cell2mat	Convert cell array to numeric array
cell2struct	Convert cell array to structure array
celldisp	Cell array contents
cellfun	Apply function to each cell in cell array
cellplot	Graphically display structure of cell array
cellstr	Create cell array of strings from character array
iscell	Determine whether input is cell array
iscellstr	Determine whether input is cell array of strings
mat2cell	Convert array to cell array with potentially different sized cells
num2cell	Convert array to cell array with consistently sized cells
strjoin	Join strings in cell array into single string
strsplit	Split string at specified delimiter
struct2cell	Convert structure to cell array

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