converting cell to str

Hi.

I am trying to load a bunch of log files, and then find certain keywords in it.

C is the cell containing the 40 input files in which i want to find certain keywords.

iscellstr(C) = 0

Since i cannot use C in strfind, i have to convert it into C2 as:

C2 = [C{:,i}]

However, here's the main problem. C contains all the 40 files i want to read, but C2 contains only one, the 40th file.

Any suggestions about the conversion will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Mahesh

Answer 1

[Greig]

You don't need to convert to a strings, try using cellfun instead. For example,

C2 = cellfun(@(x) strfind(x, 'MyPattern'), C, 'UniformOutput', 0);

This returns a cell that contains the indices for each element of C where "MyPattern' is found. Many may be empty, so this is why UniformOutput is specified as zero (i.e., non-uniform output).

You may need to use something like

cellfun(@isempty, C2)

and cell2mat in the final processing steps, depending on what you are want to do after.

[Mahesh Vibhute]

That worked! Thanks a lot!!!