MATLAB: I have a cellArray data. Could you tell me how I can extract the first column of this cellArray data without depending any character and number

cell array

cellArray =
    'A29G0202    465254.432       4066809.025'
    'A29G0008    499252.083        4042876.84'
    'A29G0014    494404.625       4047958.526'
 Name            Size            Bytes  Class     Attributes
 cellArray      22x1              ...    cell
%I want to extract first column of cellArray. (A29G0202, A29G0008, A29G0014)

Best Answer

cellArray ={'A29G0202    465254.432       4066809.025';
            'A29G0008    499252.083        4042876.84';
            'A29G0014    494404.625       4047958.526'};
a = regexp(cellArray,'^([a-zA-Z]*\d*)*','match');
out = cat(1,a{:});
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