compare length of arrays in a cell

good morning, I have acell array and i want to compare cell's length. Till now I used just t compare the equality of the cells using:

isequal(A{1,:})

A is the cell array.

I tried to run

isequal(length(A{1,:}))

but that's not correct.

What is the easiest way to achieve that, without using a or cycle???

Thanks

[Andrew Newell]

Could you give an example of A?

[Adam]

Do you really mean cell length or cell size? length is just whichever of the size dimensions is the larger, size is the full measure incorporating all dimensions.

[ludvikjahn]

A=     [1x218 cell
  1x211 cell
  1x209 cell
  1x116 cell
  1x215 cell
  1x215 cell
  1x215 cell
  1x202 cell]

so in this case isequal(if you imagine the cellS as "cut" from a larger, equal cell) would be = 0,

but if

     A=[1x215 cell
    1x215 cell
    1x215 cell]

it would also give me 0, and I want 1 as an answer in this case!!

That's why I don't have any problems using length! (but how??) Thanks

[per isakson]

Do you really mean

     A=[1x215 cell
    1x215 cell
    1x215 cell]

and not

     A={1x215 cell
    1x215 cell
    1x215 cell}

?

[ludvikjahn]

yes of course, I have just mistaken the brackets.

[Adam]

Isn't this basically the same question you asked before?:

http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/181714-find-size-uniformity-in-matlab-along-a-cell-array

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

This is easy to do in one line using cellfun , diff and any:

>> A = {cell(1,3),cell(1,3),cell(1,3)};
>> B = {cell(1,5),cell(1,2),cell(1,9)};
>> any(~diff(cellfun(@numel,A)))
ans =
     1
>> any(~diff(cellfun(@numel,B)))
ans =
     0

Answer 2

[per isakson]

A hint based on some guessing

    cac = {'abc','def', 'ghi'};
    tmp = cellfun( @length, cac, 'uni', false );
    isequal( tmp{:} )

returns

    ans =
         1

I failed to make a one-liner

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Addendum

A variant more in line with the comments to the question

    cac = {'abc','def', 'ghi'};
    cac = { cac, cac, cac };
    tmp = cellfun( @length, cac, 'uni', false );
    isequal( tmp{:} )

returns

    ans =
         1

[ludvikjahn]

sorry, what stands 'uni' for? just as an example of length?

[per isakson]

It's short for 'UniformOutput'. See cellfun, Apply function to each cell in cell array