How to remove particular data

I have the following output

Mek  Mek
Lahi  Ar
Puni  N2
Ar  Mek
N2  Mek
Mek  Lahi
Lahi  Puni
Puni  BM2
I have uncommon list:

Ar
N2
BM2

I want to remove the entire row if any of the uncommon list appears in that row. I also want to delete if the first column data and second column data equal in the particulR ROW, and remove the entire row. For example, in first row (first &second column), the data is same (Mek). So, I want to delete the entire row. And, in second row, second column, the data is Ar, because it is in uncommon list, so delete entire row. In fifth row, in first column data is N2, which is included in the uncommon list, so remove entire row. Please kindly help, how to do this. The size of out put data and uncommon list may vary. Many thanks in advance.

[the cyclist]

Are these values stored in cell arrays?

[Kanakaiah Jakkula]

Yes sir

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

data = {
'Mek',  'Mek';
'Lahi',  'Ar';
'Puni',  'N2';
'Ar',  'Mek';
'N2',  'Mek';
'Mek',  'Lahi';
'Lahi',  'Puni';
'Puni',  'BM2'};

uncommon = {'Ar','N2','BM2'};

% Remove rows with uncommon

isUncommonElement = ismember(data,uncommon);

rowHasUncommon = any(isUncommonElement,2);

data(rowHasUncommon,:) = [];

% Remove all same

isEqualToFirstElementInRow = strcmp(data,repmat(data(:,1),[1 size(data,2)]));
rowHasAllEqual = all(isEqualToFirstElementInRow,2);

data(rowHasAllEqual,:) = []

[Kanakaiah Jakkula]

Thank you sir, It works. I have one question, in one of output it contain hyphens. like 'Mek' I want to remove them, kindly help me how to remove them.

Sincerely, JAK

[the cyclist]

If you want to remove an entry that is just a hyphen (with nothing else), then you can add '-' to your uncommon list.

If you want to strip hyphens out of all strings in a cell array like

A = {'A-rod','B-ball','C-SPAN'}

then

A = regexprep(A,'-','')

[Kanakaiah Jakkula]

Sir,

my input data is:

finalscore:

-1  10  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN
  NaN  NaN  20  NaN  -1  NaN
  -1  -1  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN
  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  -1
  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN  -1
  NaN  NaN  NaN  -1  NaN  NaN

recipeHTD:

[]  'A'  'B'  'C'  'D'  'E'  'F'
'A'  []  []  []  []  []  []
'B'  []  []  []  []  []  []
'C'  []  []  []  []  []  []
'D'  []  []  []  []  []  []
'E'  []  []  []  []  []  []
'F'  []  []  []  []  []  []

for all entries whos finalscore>=0, then store finalscore, toolID,and recipeHTD. My code is as below:

toolID='RAV2'';
count=0;
for i=1:size(finalScore,2)
    for j=1:size(finalScore,1)
    if(finalScore(j,i)>=0)
        count=count+1;
        scoreTable{count,1}=toolID;
        scoreTable{count,2}=finalScore(j,i);
        scoreTable{count,3}=char(char(recipeHTD(j+1,1)));
        scoreTable{count,4}=char(char(recipeHTD(1,i+1)));
    else
        disp('no data');
    end        
    end
end

But unfortunatly my output contains hyphens before and after which I dont want. I am getting the below output:

scoreTable:

'RAV2'  10  'A'  'B'
'RAV2'  20  'B'  'C'

Please kindly help me, how to avoid these hyphens from the output. Many thanks in advance.

[the cyclist]

You are not talking about hyphens. Those are single quotes.

This is not very easy. Those quotes are not part of the input. They are just how MATLAB displays strings. I found a post on StackOverflow that explains how to do it. I have pasted an example below.

%// Input
inputArray = {
'a'          'b'          'Fa'          'Fb'         'Xn'         'Fx'         'sign Fa*Fx'
'0.70000'    '0.90000'    '-0.19592'    '0.33887'    '0.77327'    '0.02896'    '-'         
'0.70000'    '0.77327'    '-0.19592'    '0.02896'    '0.76383'    '0.00206'    '-'         
'0.70000'    '0.76383'    '-0.19592'    '0.00206'    '0.76316'    '0.00012'    '-'         
'0.70000'    '0.76316'    '-0.19592'    '0.00012'    '0.76312'    '0.00000'    '-'  };

paddedInputArray = strcat(inputArray,{'   '});  %// add whitespace

%// Convert to char array
inputCharacterArray = char(paddedInputArray{:})

% Get size parameters
[m,n] = size(paddedInputArray);
p = size(inputCharacterArray,2);

% Create a char array "replica" of input cell array
outputCharacterArray = reshape(permute(reshape(inputCharacterArray.',p,m,[]),[1 3 2]),n*p,m).';

% Display the char array
disp(outputCharacterArray)

[Kanakaiah Jakkula]

Sir,

One kind help, I also want to remove all the names starting with the leters 'Ma' in below code as given by you:

data = {
'Mek',  'Mek';
'Lahi',  'Ar';
'Puni',  'N2';
'Ar',  'Mek';
'N2',  'Mek';
'Mek',  'Lahi';
'Lahi',  'Puni';
'Puni',  'BM2'};

uncommon = {'Ar','N2','BM2'};

% Remove rows with uncommon

isUncommonElement = ismember(data,uncommon);

rowHasUncommon = any(isUncommonElement,2);

data(rowHasUncommon,:) = [];

% Remove all same

isEqualToFirstElementInRow = strcmp(data,repmat(data(:,1),[1 size(data,2)]));
rowHasAllEqual = all(isEqualToFirstElementInRow,2);

data(rowHasAllEqual,:) = []

Many thanks in advance sir.