Remove Whitespace & Text From Cell

If I have a cell like

[0.078 ms]

How can I remove both the whitespace and 'ms' to yield the result

[0.078]

Thanks,

[Stephen23]

@Cesar Cabrera: please upload a sample data file by clicking the paperclip button.

Answer 1

[Kunal Kandhari]

Hi,

You can make use of strrep: Find and replace substrings function

[Cesar Cabrera]

Thanks Kunal, what if I have several thousand cells with the same isuse? All with varying amounts of spaces with the same string 'ms'?

[Kunal Kandhari]

Hi Cesar,

You you please explain it is several thousand cell array or array of cells?

So that I can help you with that..

Can you write a dummy variable here?

[Cesar Cabrera]

.txt file

|0.56 ms|

|0.86 ms|

|0.91 ms|

|0.25 ms|

T= readtable(example.txt)

I want to parse the data into a table from a .txt file like

0.56

0.86

0.91

0.25

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

See https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.io.text.delimitedtextimportoptions.setvaropts.html#d124e755396 for the import options to ignore particular prefixes or suffixes. You would detectImportOptions and setvaropts and then pass the resulting options to readtable