How to erase cell array element with less than three characters

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If i have a function that accepts a string of characters eg('cgugcaguca') and i use
cellArr = regexp(mRNA, sprintf('\\w{1,%d}',3),'match');
to arrange the string into a cell array grouped in threes, how do i erase any elements with less than three characters.
eg {'cgu'} {'gca'} {'guc'} {'a'} , i want to erase the cell with 1 character.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 7 May 2019
Just specify the regular expression to only return groups of that number:
>> mRNA = 'cgugcaguca';
>> regexp(mRNA,sprintf('\\w{%d}',3),'match')
ans =
'cgu' 'gca' 'guc'

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KSSV
KSSV on 7 May 2019
C = [{'cgu'} {'gca'} {'guc'} {'a'}] ;
L = cellfun(@length,C) ; % GEt length of each cell array
C(L<3) = [] % Remove cell's whose length is less than 3
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Davindra Usov
Davindra Usov on 22 Jun 2022
Hi, do you happen to know how I can remove all string/chars from a 4x10 cell array where each cell in that array contains a 40x1 column vector? (so as you can see, it's nested). Thank you :)

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