Extract some data from a cell

Hi guys,

I have an array of strings, but somehow it's saved in a cell array like this:

dateList =
  1×1 cell array
    {9×1 cell}

My 9x1 cell is extracted from a txt file, so it could vary its length.

I want to withdraw some strings from that string array, for example

    var=[1 3 6 7];
    dateList(var);

Of course, it doesn't work since dateList is actually a 1x1 cell, not a 9x1 cell.

I have found the function cellfun, but what I want is not actually a function, and there's no "cell2string" function.

I have tried string(dateList) too, but the error message is the following:

Error using string

Conversion from cell failed. Element 1 must be convertible to a string scalar.

Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

[per isakson]

This typically happend when reading a text file with textscan. A simple solution is to insert

datelist = datelist{1};

before

dateList(var);

[Pol Auladell]

Thank you :)