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Processing Cell Array of Cell Array of Strings

Hi,

So I have a cell array of a cell array of strings that I am working with.

As an example consider the following:

test=cell(5,1);
test{1,1}{1}=num2str(1);
test{1,1}{2}=num2str(0);
test{2,1}{1}=num2str(0);
test{2,1}{2}=num2str(0);
test{3,1}{1}=num2str(1);
test{3,1}{2}=num2str(1);
test{4,1}{1}=num2str(0);
test{4,1}{2}=num2str(0);
test{4,1}{3}=num2str(0);
test{5,1}{1}=num2str(0);
test{5,1}{2}=num2str(1);
test{5,1}{3}=num2str(0);

I want to process this cell array of cell array of strings so that the inside cell array is removed to make it easier to analyze and look at the results.

Hence I can use the following code to do this and separate the strings in each row of the outer cell array with commas

test2=cellfun(@(x){strcat(x,',')},test)
test2=cellfun(@(x) {deblank([x{:}])},test2);

However, when I do this I get an extra comma (,) at the end. Does anyone know how I can do something similar but not have this extra comma (,) at the end of each row of test2 in this case?

Note: disregard that the strings are 1's and 0's in the sample as they can also be actual alphabet characters

"omegayen " <omegayen@ameritech.net> wrote in message <k54r74$6i9$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...
> Hi,
>
> So I have a cell array of a cell array of strings that I am working with.
>
> As an example consider the following:
>
> test=cell(5,1);
> test{1,1}{1}=num2str(1);
> test{1,1}{2}=num2str(0);
> test{2,1}{1}=num2str(0);
> test{2,1}{2}=num2str(0);
> test{3,1}{1}=num2str(1);
> test{3,1}{2}=num2str(1);
> test{4,1}{1}=num2str(0);
> test{4,1}{2}=num2str(0);
> test{4,1}{3}=num2str(0);
> test{5,1}{1}=num2str(0);
> test{5,1}{2}=num2str(1);
> test{5,1}{3}=num2str(0);
>
> I want to process this cell array of cell array of strings so that the inside cell array is removed to make it easier to analyze and look at the results.
>
> Hence I can use the following code to do this and separate the strings in each row of the outer cell array with commas
>
> test2=cellfun(@(x){strcat(x,',')},test)
> test2=cellfun(@(x) {deblank([x{:}])},test2);
>
> However, when I do this I get an extra comma (,) at the end. Does anyone know how I can do something similar but not have this extra comma (,) at the end of each row of test2 in this case?
>
> Note: disregard that the strings are 1's and 0's in the sample as they can also be actual alphabet characters

example:
"cellstr" is a cell array of cell array of strings
cellstr = { {'why hello there'}; {'matlab is fun}; {'12345abc'}};
newcellstr = [cellstr{:}];

Then newcellstr is a cell array of strings, like:
newcellstr = {'why hello there'; 'matlab is fun; '12345abc'};

The key is in this bracket notation.
If you just type cellstr{:} into the command prompt, you will see the contents of the cells, but as three different outputs... Putting the square brackets around this remedies the situation. Hope this helps!

"omegayen " <omegayen@ameritech.net> wrote in message <k54r74$6i9$1@newscl01ah.mathworks.com>...

>
> However, when I do this I get an extra comma (,) at the end. Does anyone know how I can do something similar but not have this extra comma (,) at the end of each row of test2 in this case?

Simply delete the last character:

test2=cellfun(@(x) {x(1:end-1)}, cellfun(@(x) {sprintf('%s,',x{:})},test))

% Bruno