Convert cell array to array of strings

Hi,

I have a cell array a of 10000x1 cell. Each cell contains a string. I would like to strsplit the string in each cell but I keep getting this error;

C = strsplit({a}, '_'); Error using strsplit (line 76) First input must be a char row vector.

What is the problem here?

thanks for any help.

Answer 1

[Adam]

s = string( a );
C = arrayfun( @(x) strsplit( x, '_' ), s, 'UniformOutput', false );

should work, or you could just use cellfun on the cell array itself. Depends if having a string array is useful for any other purpose. I don't know which is faster if that matters.

[JFz]

Thanks. But I got this error at s = string(a); Undefined function 'string' for input arguments of type 'cell'.

[Adam]

I guess in that case you are using an older version of Matlab that doesn't yet have strings

C = cellfun( @(x) strsplit( x, '_' ), a, 'UniformOutput', false );

should work