Problem 1971. Remove element(s) from cell array

J-G van der Toorn

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You can easily remove an element (or a column in any dimension) from a normal matrix, but assigning that value (or range) empty. For example
A = 1:10
A(5) = []
results in
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You task is to find the shortest, elegant, way in Matlab to do the same for cell arrays. Regexp, eval, and other workarounds that trick mtree are considered stupid, and will not be appreciated.

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源樹上林 on 22 Aug 2020

good

Yunpeng Teng on 5 Dec 2020

you should add that the element is deleted by the index not the value

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