doc2cell

Convert documents to cell array of string vectors

Syntax

C = doc2cell(documents)

Description

C = doc2cell(documents) converts a tokenizedDocument array to a cell array. The entries of C are string arrays containing the corresponding words in each document.

Examples

Convert Document Array to Cell Array

Convert a tokenizedDocument array to a cell array of string vectors.

documents = tokenizedDocument([ ...
    "an example of a short sentence" ...
    "a second short sentence"])

documents = 
  1x2 tokenizedDocument:

    6 tokens: an example of a short sentence
    4 tokens: a second short sentence

C = doc2cell(documents)

C=1×2 cell array
    {["an"    "example"    ...    ]}    {["a"    "second"    ...    ]}

View the first element of the cell array.

C{1}

ans = 1x6 string
    "an"    "example"    "of"    "a"    "short"    "sentence"

Input Arguments

documents — Input documents

tokenizedDocument array

Input documents, specified as a tokenizedDocument array.

Output Arguments

C — Output cell array

cell array of string vectors

Output cell array of string vectors. Each element of C is a string vector containing the words of the corresponding document.

Version History

Introduced in R2017b