How to extract data from a long csv object that is given as a single text variable

I have a single long text variable from a table A that looks like this:

A{1}=‘[WAKE,WAKE,WAKE,DEEP,LIGHT,REM,WAKE,REM,WAKE,REM,WAKE,WAKE]’ -----over a thousand entries

How do I extract these text objects in Matlab so I can assign integer values to them?

Answer 1

[Ankit Kumar]

Hi Stewart,

You can extract the different text entries using strsplit(). Refer this for more info,

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strsplit.html

Then you can convert them into text objects using mlreportgen.dom.Text(), for example:

textObj = mlreportgen.dom.Text('abc');

For more info see this,

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.text-class.html#bufp8l0-1-textObj