check a null value

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Amish
Amish on 15 Apr 2013
I want to check in a cell array that at which position or which element is null or string how to do that for example i have array named att={'strong',[],'wind',[],'overcast','weak',[]}; now in this array i want to apply a if condition that if (att(x,y) contain null element) do this else ---. how to do that how to check null values and string values separately. i am using is empty but it always give either 1 or either 0. it is unable to recognize the null values in att variable.
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Jan
Jan on 15 Apr 2013
I do not see "null values" in you cell. Do you mean the empty matrices?
It would be helpful, if you post the code, instead of the vague explanation "I am using is empty". How could we guess what's going wrong without seeing any details? Please note that 0 and 1 are the expected answers for the isempty() command.

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Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 15 Apr 2013
Edited: Andrei Bobrov on 15 Apr 2013
att={'strong',[],'wind',[],'overcast','weak',[]};
t = cellfun('isempty',att);
example
a1 = att;
a1(t) = {0};
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Jan
Jan on 15 Apr 2013
As usualy I mention, that cellfun('isempty', att) is more efficient.
Andrei Bobrov
Andrei Bobrov on 15 Apr 2013
OK, corrected.

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