getting rid of empty cells in a cell array

Hi,

can you please help me with this? I have the following cell array

x = {1,[],'ciao',[],[]};

I want to exclude the empty cells, and get another array like this:

y = {1,'ciao'};

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Niklas Nylén]

First, check which cells that are empty using the function isempty. Since isempty does not accept cell arrays as input, you can use the cellfun function. This will call a function with each element of a cell array:

index = cellfun(@isempty, x) == 0;
y = x(index)

[Sebastiano delre]

thank you!

Answer 2

[Mischa Kim]

Try y=x(~cellfun('isempty',x))

[Sebastiano delre]

thanks, this helps me as well...

[Kanthaswamy Ganapathy]

Thank you . How do I extend this to work for a n-d cell array

[Yiqian Qian]

I have the same question above, how to apply this to a specific row or colums.

[Nisha Bharti]

Yes, same query