Convert from cell to string
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I have the following problem. I have a sentence as a string. I wan to process some words in it. My idea was to isolate the words using textscan and then unite the resulting cell array of strings to one string to gain the modified sentence. However I can not do the last step. I would like to have converted the cell array to a matrix first so that the matrix was converted to a string, but I could not perform it because the elements of the cell array contains strings of different length. What can I do?
Example:
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
extracted = textscan(sentence, '%s');
extracted = extracted{1};
for k = 1:numel(extracted)
extracted{k}(1) = 'a';
end
% Now I should rearrange it to form a single string (the same format as the string "sentence").
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Ahmet Cecen
le 2 Nov 2014
Modifié(e) : Ahmet Cecen
le 2 Nov 2014
Do you specifically need it to be a cell array at the end? Why not just use a recursive string concatenation? Something like:
newsentence='';
for i=1:numel(extracted)
newsentence=strcat(newsentence,' ',extracted{i});
end
% '' in the middle is space between words.
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Star Strider
le 2 Nov 2014
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
strvct = strsplit(sentence, '.','CollapseDelimiters',0);
newsent = sprintf('%s',char(strvct)')
produces:
newsent =
I am a MATLAB user
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Guillaume
le 6 Nov 2014
As you saw in your code, with textscan, you only split at blank spaces, so punctuation gets included in your word. So to start with, a regular expression would allow you to detect proper word boundaries. The regular expression '[A-Za-z]+' would detect a sequence of one or more letters and letters only. Thus to get the start and end of each word, you could use:
[startword, endword] = regexp(sentence, '[A-Za-z]+');
and use the indices to swap the letters of the word.
However, there is also regexprep which allows you to use regular expressions to detect and replace part of a string and since you can include matlab commands in the replacement string, you can do it all with a single regexprep.
The first thing you want to do is detect and capture the first, the inside, and the last letters of a word. The inside letters, you want to swap with fliplr. The captures are done with brackets (), so the regular expression is '([A-Za-z])([A-Za-z]+)([A-Za-z])', that is one letter, one or more letters, one letter. In your replacement you want the first and third capture intact and the 2nd flipped, so your replacement string is '$1${fliplr($2)}$3', leading to:
regexprep(sIn, '([a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z]+)([a-zA-Z])', '$1${fliplr($2)}$3');
One of the winning solution for that cody problem. Instead of using captures you could use look-ahead and look-behind for the first and last letters but the principle is the same. It's just the syntax of the regex and replacement string that changes.
Image Analyst
le 2 Nov 2014
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
theSeparateWords = allwords(sentence)
newSentence = sprintf('%s ', theSeparateWords{:})
In the command window:
theSeparateWords =
'I' 'am' 'a' 'MATLAB' 'user'
newSentence =
I am a MATLAB user
It's a cell array of course because the strings are of different lengths.
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