MATLAB: Replace the string a cell array with empty cell

replacing string with empty cell

I have a cell array a = {'abc' ; 'def' ; 'ghi' ; 'def' ; 'xyz'}

I need to replace a 'def' with empty cell.

so my answer should be a = {'abc' ; '' ; 'ghi' ; '' ; 'xyz'}

How can i do this using cell function?

thank you

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You may directly use the strrep function

a = strrep(a, 'def', '');

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Short answer is, "you can't".

A double array cannot have an empty element; it is either empty or full.

A cell array is the only way in which I see you can do this other than, perhaps you could cobble something together with sparse maybe???

The only alternative I see in an ordinary array would be to replace the empty cell with NaN or some other indicator value.

ses1_results{cellfun(@isempty,ses1_results)}=nan;
res=cell2mat(ses1_results);
res(res==0)=[];

returns

res =
    1.1920
    0.5678
    1.0000
       NaN
    1.0000
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Or, of course, following the comment; you've already got a cell array; just remove the cells that are zero.

>> ses1_results(~cellfun(@(v)isequal(v,0),ses1_results))
ans =
  5×1 cell array
    {[  1.1920]}
    {[  0.5678]}
    {[       1]}
    {0×0 double}
    {[       1]}
>>

MATLAB: Delete empty [] {1×7 cell} {1×2 cell}

z(cellfun('isempty',z))=[]

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