How do i check for empty cells within a list
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How do i check for empty cells within list? I have a list of cells, namelist, and it has 12 values, i need to check if some of the cells are empty. Thanks
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the cyclist
on 21 Sep 2011
It is not clear what you mean by a "list of cells". Can you provide some code that illustrates what types of variables you are using? For example, by "cells", do you mean cell arrays?
Without more details, it is hard to answer your question, but there are functions isempty() and cellfun() that might be useful to you.
Edited in response to your comments:
>> cellfun(@isempty,namelist)
does what I think you want. For example:
namelist = cell(2,6)
namelist{1} = 'abc'
namelist{12} = 3
cellfun(@isempty,namelist)
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Jan
on 24 Nov 2017
[EDITED, moved from flag to comment] LULU XUE wrote:
It's very useful!! inspiring! Thanks
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topdawgnate
on 21 Sep 2011
%Build Cell array (note the curly brackets)
A{1,1} = [1 4 3; 0 5 8; 7 2 9];
A{1,2} = 'Anne Smith';
A{2,1} = 3+7i;
A{2,2} = [];
Use the isempty function
isempty(A{2,2}) %Note the difference "{" and "(" brackets
This function will return 1.
Hope this helps. Nate
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the cyclist
on 21 Sep 2011
Be aware that this solution checks a single element within a cell array. My solution checks every element in the cell array individually, and reports whether each cell is empty or not. That might be more efficient, depending on your application.
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