function that gives the number of letters in a word
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for example abcd should be equal 4 when i define a vector w={'abcd','ccb'} length(w(1,1)) gives me 1 and not 4
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Andrei Bobrov
on 30 Apr 2013
length(w{1}) ;
out = cellfun('length',w);
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Jan
on 30 Apr 2013
w(1,1) is : {'abcd'}, a {1x1} cell and therefore its length is 1. But you want the contents of this cell element, and therefore nedd the curly braces, as Andrei has shown.
Image Analyst
on 30 Apr 2013
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