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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

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• 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

iscell - Determine whether input is cell array

Syntax

tf = iscell(A)

Description

tf = iscell(A) returns logical 1 (true) if A is a cell array and logical 0 (false) otherwise.

Examples

A{1,1} = [1 4 3; 0 5 8; 7 2 9];
A{1,2} = 'Anne Smith';
A{2,1} = 3+7i;
A{2,2} = -pi:pi/10:pi;

iscell(A)

ans =

     1

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