Convert array of comma separated strings in cells to matrix
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Wordy, I know, but here's the short story.
I have a cell matrix like this:
Arr = {
'0,2,3'
'1,4,5'
'2,6,7'
};
that I need converted to numeric values, preferably in a matrix like this:
Mat = [
0 2 3;
1 4 5;
2 6 7;
];
The array is tens of thousands of lines long. I am currently using brute force to go line by line and convert each cell to a vector using strsplit and concatenating each row onto the bottom of Mat. Can anybody offer a better suggestion?
Here's the big picture if it helps:
I have a log file like this:
crap
crap
crap
HeaderCol1,HeaderCol2
0,4
1,5
2,6
3,7
crap
crap
HeaderCol1,HeaderCol2,HeaderCol3
0,1,2
1,2,3
2,3,4
3,4,5
crap
I need to import and plot the larger block of data and smaller block separately.
any help is appreciated and thank you.
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Jon
on 15 Jul 2022
Looks like you got some answers here that you liked. Would be good if you accepted one of them so that others, like me would get pointed to the one you would suggest using.
Answers (4)
Jan
on 21 Jun 2017
Arr = {
'0,2,3'
'1,4,5'
'2,6,7'};
Str = sprintf('%s,', Arr{:});
Num = sscanf(Str, '%g,', [3, inf]).';
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John Grant
on 3 Aug 2019
I signed in just to thank you for this answer you gave, in delimiting comma spaced cell matrices. I've been struggling for hours, trying to breakup a cell matrix that had put all its data into 1 column, when it should have been 3 columns.
Walter Roberson
on 22 Jun 2017
Mat = cell2mat(cellfun(@str2num,Arr,'uniform',0));
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salman ashraf
on 2 Apr 2021
Edited: salman ashraf
on 2 Apr 2021
It worked well.
Thank you so much Walter Roberson. Your comment helped me a lot. Thank you
Andrei Bobrov
on 21 Jun 2017
Arr = {
'0,2,3'
'1,4,5'
'2,6,7'
};
T = regexprep(Arr,',','');
Brr = cell2mat(arrayfun(@(x)T{x}-'0',(1:numel(T))','un',0))
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Ahmet Karakaya
on 4 Jan 2020
1.Choose cell array on the workspace
2.Right click and copy contents
3. Paste between brackets
Array = [ ]
4.Array is a numeric array
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