Counting number of nonempty cells within a cell
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    Julia Gorman
 on 26 Jul 2022
  
    
    
    
    
    Commented: Walter Roberson
      
      
 on 26 Jul 2022
            I have a 32x3 cell and I want to count the number of nonempty cells within it. When I use N = nnz(my_cell), this is the error I get
Undefined function 'nnz' for input arguments of type 'cell'.
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  David Hill
      
      
 on 26 Jul 2022
        nnz(cell2mat(my_cell));%assuming each cell is a number
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  David Hill
      
      
 on 26 Jul 2022
				Attach your cell array.
for k=1:32;
  for m=1:3;
    a{k,m}=randi(30,1)-1;%a is a 32x3 cell array of numbers
  end
end
N=nnz(cell2mat(a))
  Walter Roberson
      
      
 on 26 Jul 2022
				The question is not about nonzero cells, it is about nonempty cells, in a context where cells might contain different number of entries each. For example, length 5, length 0, length 3
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