Strings: delete rows with empty values

I have a very large string array (part of it is shown below), and sometimes the secound column contains "empty" values. I would like to delete each row whose second column is empty.
"laterite-00047" "" "zeros(0,1)"
"laterite-00048" "" "zeros(0,1)"
"laterite-00049" "204186,54901" "204186"
"laterite-00050" "204186,54901" "54901"
"laterite-00051" "" "zeros(0,1)"
"laterite-00052" "204186,54901" "54901"

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attach part of your string array as .mat file
For a string array the correct method to way to cound the number of characters is to use strlength:

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a(~any(cellfun('isempty',a),2),:) % where a is your string array

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Alternative (faster):
a(~strcmp(a(:,2),""),:)
if i want to remove columns containing all empty values in the string. Then how this can be modified?

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