fill up a cell array with string elements

Hye

I have to write a function that puts the words of a string in a cell array.

I've made the following script.

I already get a cell array with the right amount of cells, but they are all filled up with the first word of the string.

How do I get this right?

function [words] = giveWords(sentence)

k = split(sentence);

words = cell(1,length(k));

words(1,:) = k(1,:);

end

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

This is all you need

words=split('this is a sentence.')

[Ellen De Jonghe]

If I do that, I think i will get a string array. But I need the seperate words in a cell array.

[Fangjun Jiang]

It depends on the data type of the input. In your case, you can add one more line to convert it

words=mat2cell(names,repmat(1,1,size(names,1)),repmat(1,size(names,2),1))

[Fangjun Jiang]

or use cellstr(split("This is a sentence"))

Answer 2

[Jonathan Allen]

Replace last 2 lines with

[words(:)] = {k{:}};