How do I flush right to content of my cell array in MATLAB (R2013a)?

I have a cell array with mixed data types that I would like to have flushed right. That is, I want my cell entries to be right-aligned.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Say you have a cell array defined as follows:

c = {'123';'Hello World!';'0.98765'};

Then , to have it right-aligned, you could create a function 'flushRight' defined by:

function output = flushRight(data)

% DATA is a cell array

      [m,n]       = size(data);

      dataLengths = cellfun(@length,data,'UniformOutput',false);

      maxLength   = max(cell2mat(dataLengths)); 

      output      = cell(m,n);

      for j = 1 : n

          output(:,j) = cellfun(@(s) sprintf('%*s',maxLength(j),s),...

                                data(:,j),'UniformOutput',false);

      end  

end