MATLAB: Remove whitespace from cell array

cell arraywhite space

I have a cell array which looks something like this;
 'DS 5376'
    'FR 8241'
    'B 1257'
    'BG 09857'
    'TR 3017'
I want to remove the central white space (or any white space to that matter) to get the following
 'DS5376'
    'FR8241'
    'B1257'
    'BG09857'
    'TR3017'
Previous questions and suggested and I have tried using
cell_Array=strrep(cell_Array,' ','')
but to no avail – any ideas as to how I can acheive this?
Many thanks

Best Answer

If your example with strrep does not succeed, that would be because the whitespace is actually not a space. You can check what it is for sure by getting its ASCII value with:
double(cell_Array{1}(3))
If it is some other sort of whitespace (maybe a tab), you can use:
cell_Array = regexprep(cell_Array, '\s', '') %\s means any of \t, \f, \n, \r or \v
But if it is not, assuming your text is only letters, numbers or underscore, you can remove anything else with:
cell_Array = regexprep(cell_Array, '\W', '')
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