How to find an array within a cell array
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I have a 5000x1 cell. I'm trying to find the cells that contain arrays.
below is an example of the rows in the cell, I'm trying to identify rows similar to row 651. As i wish to extract only these rows from the table

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Walter Roberson
on 22 Nov 2017
cellfun(@iscell, YourCellArray)
is one possible interpretation. But remember that 'Peter ' is an array in MATLAB, so another interpretation would be
cellfun(@(C) length(C) > 1, YourCellArray)
To double check: is it correct that you would want to detect 'Peter ' because that is an array (a character vector), but that you would not want to detect "Peter " because MATLAB considers that a 1 x 1 string() object ?
Andrei Bobrov
on 22 Nov 2017
Edited: Andrei Bobrov
on 22 Nov 2017
out = celltime(cellfun(@(x)iscell(x) & numel(x) > 1 ,celltime));
Quintin De Lima
on 22 Nov 2017
Edited: Quintin De Lima
on 22 Nov 2017
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