cell2char

Function to convert a cell array of strings into a character array.

function S = cell2char(C)
%
% Converts the contents of a cell array of strings into a character
% array. The contents of the cell C are read element-wise and
% converted into a char array of length MAXCOL where MAXCOL is
% the length of the longest string inside the array.
% Thus the dimensions of the resulting character array S are
% [NROW, MAXCOL], with NROW being the number of strings in C.
% Strings inside the array that are of shorter length than
% MAXCOL, are padded with blank spaces, so that S has an homogeneous
% number of columns. In addition, any rows in C that are NaN's
% in IEEE arithmetic representation are replaced by the string
% 'NaN'.
%
% Syntax: S = CELL2CHAR(C);