Find rows in cell for each array between two values and create new cell with the values you just found

Hello

For better understanding i attached an image of the problem.

I have two 8x5 cells n and p, which have the same size of arrays but different values in them. The arrays in the two cells countain all double values and each array in a cell has a different size.

I want tio create two new cells n_new and p_new which should contain values of the array itself.

x is the start value and y the end value. Im looking for a code wich goes to each array in cell n, looks for the start and the end and then writes the values which lie in between x and y to a new array in a new cell. So n_new{1,1} starts with the first value where n_{1,1} < x and ends with n{1,1}<y

This for each array so i thought it could work with a for loop like that, but the error says "Operator '<' is not supported for operands of type 'cell'."

for i =1:8
   for u =1:8
     row_start{i,u} = find(n<x,1);
     row_end{i,u} = find(n<y,1);
     n_new{i,u} =n{i,u}(row_start{i,u}:row_end{i,u})
   end
end

I cant convert the whole cell two double. I found a way to do it, but it would be a 50 lines code for each array and im sure there is better way for the Problem.

Thanks in advance

Simon

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

Using linear indexing to access the cell arrays only requires one loop:

n_new = cell(size(n));
for k = 1:numel(n)
    idx = find(n{k}<x,1);
    idy = find(n{k}<y,1);
    n_new{k} = n{k}(idx:idy);
end