representation of a cell array in 2025b

representation change of a cell array from 2024b to 2025b

for example I have all subfolder names from a folder in a cell array,

in 2024b i see the names of my folders but in 2025b I see this:

6×1 cell array

{1×1 cell}

{1×1 cell}

{1×1 cell}

{1×1 cell}

{1×1 cell}

{1×1 cell}

so the names are not visible any more in the cell array if it is an 1x1 cell.

are there some setting that could be changed that I see the content of the cells?

[Dyuman Joshi]

How did you obtain these subfolder names? Did you use any code for doing so?

[Stephen23]

Dyuman Joshi asked the right question. More particularly, why are you nesting superfluous scalar cell arrays inside another cell array?

writematrix(pi,'somename.csv')
writematrix(23,'nextname.csv')
S = dir();
C = {S.name} % no superfluous nesting

C = 1×4 cell array
    {'.'}    {'..'}    {'nextname.csv'}    {'somename.csv'}

The data design would be the obvious thing to fix:

D = cellfun(@(n){n}, C, 'uni',0) % superfluous nesting

D = 1×4 cell array
    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

One option is to use the '{:}' representation to see the contents --

Names = {{'abc'},{'def'},{'ghi'},{'jklmnop'}}

Names = 1×4 cell array
    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}

Names{:}

ans = 1×1 cell array
    {'abc'}

ans = 1×1 cell array
    {'def'}

ans = 1×1 cell array
    {'ghi'}

ans = 1×1 cell array
    {'jklmnop'}

.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

If you have cells or structs inside of cells (as I suspect is the case in the original poster's question) you could use the celldisp function to recursively display the contents.

Names = {{'abc'},{'def'},{struct('abc', 'def'), 'ghi'},{'jklmnop', {1:5}}}

Names = 1×4 cell array
    {1×1 cell}    {1×1 cell}    {1×2 cell}    {1×2 cell}

celldisp(Names)

 
Names{1}{1} =
 
abc
 
 
Names{2}{1} =
 
def
 
 
Names{3}{1} =
 
    abc: 'def'

 
 
Names{3}{2} =
 
ghi
 
 
Names{4}{1} =
 
jklmnop
 
 
Names{4}{2}{1} =
 
     1     2     3     4     5