Compile multiple cells in a single vector including empty cells as zero elements.

I have this as input

H = []    []    [5]    []    [3]

and I want

H = [0 0 5 0 3]

as output.

Please help!

[Michael Soskind]

I will provide a very naive method here. Maybe someone has a better solution.

H = {[],[],5,[],3};         % original array

for i = 1:size(H,1)         % loop through rows (1)
    for j = 1:size(H,2)     % loop through columns (5)
        if isempty(H{i,j})  
            H{i,j} = [0];    % if empty, replace the empty array with zero
        end
    end
end

H_new = cell2mat(H)         % convert cell to matrix

You could use a temporary cell array if you do not want to modify the original cell array H.

[MANISH KUMAR]

Thank you very much sir!

So kind of you!

Answer 1

[Voss]

H = { []    []    [5]    []    [3] } % original array

H = 1×5 cell array
    {0×0 double}    {0×0 double}    {[5]}    {0×0 double}    {[3]}

H(cellfun(@isempty,H)) = {0}         % if empty, replace the empty array with zero

H = 1×5 cell array
    {[0]}    {[0]}    {[5]}    {[0]}    {[3]}

H = [H{:}]                           % convert cell to matrix

H = 1×5

0 0 5 0 3