MATLAB: Finding a series of numbers in a cell

cellcellfunstrcmp

Good day,
I have the following cell called "c"
c = {'Conc_510_Y2_Asym_27730_AuditoryOddball'
'Conc_510_Y2_Asym_27730_GoNoGo'
'Conc_510_Y2_Baseline_27855_AuditoryOddball'
'Conc_510_Y2_Baseline_27855_GoNoGo'
'Conc_510_Y2_Mid_27632_AuditoryOddball'
'Conc_510_Y2_Mid_27632_GoNoGo'
'27135_AuditoryOddball'
'27260_AuditoryOddball'
'27325_AuditoryOddball'
'27459_AuditoryOddball'
'27430_AuditoryOddball'
'27430_GoNoGo'
'TS#27371'
'TS#27430'
'TS#27487'
'TS#27636'
'TS#27708'
'TS#27391'
'TS#27419'
'TS#27623'
'TS#27647'
'TS#25658'
'TS#25707'
'TS#25897'
'TS#27059'
'TS#27143'
'TS#27589'
'TS#27631'
'TS#27762'
'TS#27797'
'TS#25762'
'TS#27204'
'TS#27253'
'TS#27274'
'25874'
'TS#27075'
'TS#27131'
'TS#27167'
'TS#27345'
'TS#27489'
'TS#27516'
'TS#27518'
'TS#27732'
'27090_AuditoryOddball'
'27268_AuditoryOddball'
'Other - TS#27505'
'Other - TS#27775 - Other'
'Other -TS#27423'
'TS#27021 - Baseline'
'TS#27091'
'TS#27315 -Asym'
'TS#27475'
'TS#27484'
'TS#27642'
'TS#27665'
'TS#27759'
'TS#25672'
'TS#25843'
'TS#27156'
'TS#27279'
'TS#27314'
'TS#27404'
'TS#27407'
'TS#27617'
'TS#27688'
'TS#27856'
'27558_AuditoryOddball'
'27702_AuditoryOddball'
'27714_AuditoryOddball'
'27745_AuditoryOddball'
'27798_AuditoryOddball'
'Other Files'
'27433_AuditoryOddball'
'27547_AuditoryOddball'
'27588_AuditoryOddball'
'27474_AuditoryOddball'
'27523_AuditoryOddball'
'27705_AuditoryOddball'
'Other Files'
'TS#27076'
'TS#27138'
'TS#27275'
'TS#27537'
'27336_AuditoryOddball'
'27533_AuditoryOddball'
'27614_AuditoryOddball'
'27669_AuditoryOddball'
'27862_AuditoryOddball'
'Other Files'
'27335_AuditoryOddball'
'27445_AuditoryOddball'
'27467_AuditoryOddbal'
'27683_AuditoryOdddball'
'27755_AuditoryOddball'}
I am trying to extract the series of 5 numbers from the cell and store it into an array. Such that the results from the first 5 results would be
[27730;
27730;
27855;
27855;
27632;]
I know that I can use @cellfun to scan if there is a specific number within a cell
find(cell2mat(c)==2)
However, this method won't work here. I would appreciate any guidance/help.
Thanks,

Best Answer

It's not clear exactly what pattern you're looking for. The following will work for your first five numbers:
str2double(regexp(yourcellarray, '\d+(?=[^0-9]*$)', 'match', 'once'))
but so would many other patterns which would produce different results for the rest of the array.
Note: rather than using an external service, paste an excerpt of your cell array into your question.
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