MATLAB: How to flush right to content of the cell array in MATLAB (R2013a)

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I have a cell array with mixed data types that I would like to have flushed right. That is, I want my cell entries to be right-aligned.

Best Answer

Say you have a cell array defined as follows:
c = {'123';'Hello World!';'0.98765'};
Then , to have it right-aligned, you could create a function 'flushRight' defined by:
function output = flushRight(data)
% DATA is a cell array
      [m,n]       = size(data);
      dataLengths = cellfun(@length,data,'UniformOutput',false);
      maxLength   = max(cell2mat(dataLengths)); 
      output      = cell(m,n);
      for j = 1 : n
          output(:,j) = cellfun(@(s) sprintf('%*s',maxLength(j),s),...
                                data(:,j),'UniformOutput',false);
      end  
end
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