count number of elements in a cell

say I have x={'zyryan';'zythem';'zythia';'zythum';'zyzomys'}

how would I count the number of elements in x. There are 5 words in x so I would like the output to be 1

[Stephen23]

Your example vector x has five elements (five cells), so where do you get the value 1 from?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I have no idea what result you want, but the size function will work:

x={'zyryan';'zythem';'zythia';'zythum';'zyzomys'};
sz_x = size(x)

sz_x =
     5     1

[Max]

I would like the answer to just be 5

[Star Strider]

In that instance, the code becomes:

sz_x = length(x)

sz_x =
     5

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

>> x={'zyryan';'zythem';'zythia';'zythum';'zyzomys'};
>> numel(x)
ans =  5