Cell array Strings help

Hi, Could I please have some help?

Firstly, typing this into matlab: cellArray1 = {'hi', 'harry', 'potter'} , outputs a 1x3 cell array: cellArray1 =

    'hi'    'harry'    'potter'

Now, I want to make a cell array exactly like above but from a String of words such as: text = 'hi harry potter'.

Can anyone please help? I cant figure how to make my text go into a 1x3 cell array :(

Thanks

[Thomas Blackwood]

Try the strcat function.

If you take your string you can try:

strcat(cellArray1{1}, 32, cellArray1{2}, 32, cellArray1{3})

If you're wondering what the 32 is about check the ASCII table codes.

[Jan]

@Thomas: The question is tricky. tom did not want to concatenate the strings, but to split them.

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

regexp('hi harry potter',' ','split')

[tom rawr]

thanks! So simple, didnt realise!

Answer 2

[Jan]

Or:

C = textscan('hi harry potter', '%s')
S = C{1}';

[tom rawr]

Thank you Jan!

Answer 3

[Jan]

Since Matlab 2013a:

strsplit('hi harray potter')

And modern Matlab versions suggest:

split('hi harray potter')

which creates the new string class.

I'm still astonished that this job concerns the standard problem: Import a text file to a cell string. In R6.5 we needed to create a function to split a string into a cell string by our own. Then regexp('split') was introduced. Later on textread solved this (based on the underlying function dataread, until this was replaced by textscan. Cruel. This is a standard task and it is impossible to write it with backward compatibility.