MATLAB: Extracing the part of the string from cell array

extracing the part of the string from cell array

I have a cell array a = {'abc__first__element' ; 'def__second__element'; ghi__third__element'}

I want to extract the string after first '__'

My final answer should be a = {'first__element'; 'second__element'; 'third__element'}

How can do this?

Thanks a lot

 regexp(a,'(?<=__)(.*)','match')

A function to automatically extract numerical data from a cell array of strings is not available in MATLAB 7.9 (R2009b).

The attached function, strip_cell_to_num, can be used to perform this task using regular expressions.

Have a look at this documentation page. Specifically, the example showing the syntax for extracting data from a cell within a cell:

C{2,1}{1,2}