I was doing some operations in Strings.I have a string 'AGCT' in X.I saved it in a cell using the following command
y(1,1)={x};
Now it is stored in a single cell.Now i want to take each letter from the string separately.I want to take A first the G and so on. Cell array conversion is necessary in this case.So how to convert the cell content back to string again??
You can get the string out of a cell with the curly braces ({}):
x='AGCT';
y(1) = {x};
y{1}
ans =
AGCT
And you can string together indexing operators to get individual characters directly from the cell array. For example:
y{1}(2)
ans =
G
Also keep in mind that the char function can convert a cell array of strings into a 2D character array by vertically concatenating the strings while padding with white space as necessary:
S = char(C), whenCis a cell array of strings, places each element ofCinto the rows of the character arrayS. UseCELLSTRto convert back.
This way you could convert your entire cell array into a 2D character array with just char(y), but I think you are looking for a way to do the indexing of individual characters directly from the cell array as above.
And speaking of cell array conversion, have a look at cellfun, which can be used to perform the same operation on each cell. For example, if you had a cell such as y = {'AGCT','CTGA'}; and you wanted the second character of each cell (a character array containing GT), you might be tempted to do y{:}(2), but this does not work (the first index must be a scalar). A solution is:
>> iBase = 2;
>> basei = cellfun(@(c)c(iBase),y)
basei =
GT
