text matrix to scaler matrix

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min ho lee
min ho lee on 23 Dec 2013
Commented: Azzi Abdelmalek on 23 Dec 2013
Hello I have a matrix such that each cell is a string of numbers example ['10 11 12 13 ';'1 2 3']. I want to convert it into a matrix as[ 10 11 12 13;1 2 3 0]. This matrix contains a text file attachment.I used the function str2num for small matrices but My main work with matrices that have more than one million rows. thank you
kind regards
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 23 Dec 2013
Are you sure it's {'10 11 12 13';'1 2 3'} and not {'10 11 12 13' ;'1 2 3 0'}?
min ho lee
min ho lee on 23 Dec 2013
Yes, I'm sure. I've attached the input and output matrices. Output matrix was created by hand, but for large data sets it is not logical.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 23 Dec 2013
v= {'10 11 12 13 ';'1 2 3 0'}
a=cellfun(@(x) cellfun(@str2double,regexp(x,'\d+','match')),v,'un',0);
out=cell2mat(a)
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 23 Dec 2013
v= {'10 11 12 13 ';'1 2 3 '}
a=cellfun(@(x) cellfun(@str2double,regexp(x,'\d+','match')),v,'un',0);
n=max(cellfun(@numel,a));
out=cell2mat(cellfun(@(x) [x zeros(1,n-numel(x))],a,'un',0))

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