How to get the length of the text elements in character array

I have a character array with values

val =

    HINDALCOJAN2016FUT  
    INFRATELJAN2016FUT  
    INFRATELJAN2016FUT  
    NMDCJAN2016FUT      
    NMDCJAN2016FUT      
    SBINJAN2016FUT      
    SBINJAN2016FUT

I want to get the length of the string of each element in the character array. I know how to get the length using the for loop. Is there any efficient method other than using for loop?

After knowing the length of each string, I need to extract strings from position 1 to length of each string minus 10

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

f = fopen('20160427.txt');
c = textscan(f,'%s','delimiter','\n');
fclose(f);

out = cellfun(@(x)x(1:end-10),c{:},'un',0);

[Karthick Jonagadla]

The solution worked. Thanks for the help :)