Cell array Strings help
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Hi, Could I please have some help?
Firstly, typing this into matlab: cellArray1 = {'hi', 'harry', 'potter'} , outputs a 1x3 cell array: cellArray1 =
'hi' 'harry' 'potter'
Now, I want to make a cell array exactly like above but from a String of words such as: text = 'hi harry potter'.
Can anyone please help? I cant figure how to make my text go into a 1x3 cell array :(
Thanks
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Thomas Blackwood
on 1 Jun 2017
Edited: Thomas Blackwood
on 1 Jun 2017
Try the strcat function.
If you take your string you can try:
strcat(cellArray1{1}, 32, cellArray1{2}, 32, cellArray1{3})
If you're wondering what the 32 is about check the ASCII table codes.
Jan
on 2 Jun 2017
@Thomas: The question is tricky. tom did not want to concatenate the strings, but to split them.
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Jan
on 2 Jun 2017
Since Matlab 2013a:
strsplit('hi harray potter')
And modern Matlab versions suggest:
split('hi harray potter')
which creates the new string class.
I'm still astonished that this job concerns the standard problem: Import a text file to a cell string. In R6.5 we needed to create a function to split a string into a cell string by our own. Then regexp('split') was introduced. Later on textread solved this (based on the underlying function dataread, until this was replaced by textscan. Cruel. This is a standard task and it is impossible to write it with backward compatibility.
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