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• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Functions

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Types

• Numeric Types

• Characters and Strings

• Structures

• Cell Arrays

• Map Container Objects

• Function Handles

• Java Classes and Objects

• Data Type Identification

• Data Type Conversion

• Operators and Special Characters

• Strings

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Graphics

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Examples

• Release Notes

cellstr - Create cell array of strings from character array

Syntax

c = cellstr(S)

Description

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.

Examples

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            198  cell array

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