How to delete empty rows from string arrays contained in a cell array?

I would need to delete empty strings contained in N x 1 string arrays (N is variable) which are contained in a cell array theirself.

mycellArray is a 3×1 cell array and is made up of string arrays of variable dimensions:

• mycellArray{1} is a 49×1 string array
• mycellArray{2} is a 22×1 string array
• mycellArray{3} is a 35×1 string array

mycellArray{1} looks like:

How can I delete just the empty rows "" and let the written text?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

 Wanted = arrayfun(@(y)cellfun(@(x) x(~(x=="")), c{y},'un', 0),1:numel(c)).' % c your cell array

[Davide Festa]

First of all thanks for the answer. I think the direction is good.

However, what I get if I type Wanted{1} is

Wanted{1}

ans =

  49×1 cell array

    {0×0 char}
    {0×0 char}
    {0×0 char}
    {'S'     }
    {0×0 char}
    {0×0 char}
    {'9'     }
    {0×0 char}
    {'9'     }
    {0×0 char}
    {0×0 char}
    {'9'     }

I would like Wanted to be again a cell array of string arrays(just like % c your cell array).

For example, what I look for is Wanted{1} to be a 49x1 string array with NOT only the first character of every row (as you can see on the 4th row I just got 'S'), but I need the whole line of text. And of course I don't need the empty lines.

Thanks

[madhan ravi]

I answered your original question.

[Davide Festa]

fine, thank you anyway

Answer 2

[Arthur Roué]

% Logical array, true when element in cell is empty
vb = cellfun(@isempty, MyCell)

% Remove empty element
MyCell = MyCell(~vb)

[Davide Festa]

Thanks for your answer, but my purpose is to delete empty strings contained in each string array of the cell.

Your suggest is to delete empty cells, but I have no empty cell, just empty strings ("") within string arrays which are part of a cell array.

Hope to be clear.

[Arthur Roué]

Oh, ok I misunderstood the problem.

I think you have your answer below :)