Selecting and Manipulating Specific Elements from Cell Array

A shortened version of my cell array:

{apples}        {[1]}
{bananas}       {[3]}
{apples}        {[10]}
{apples}        {[9]}
{bananas}       {[7]}

I would like to write a code that creates a cell array that only consists of values from the second column that are on the same row as apples, i.e., this:

{[1]}
{[10]}
{[9]}

How would I do this?

Thanks,

Jonathan

Answer 1

[Jon]

% define original matrix
myCell = {'apples' 1;'bananas',3;'apples' 10;'apples',9;'bananas' 7}
% use logical indexing to just get rows that match your criteria
newCell = myCell(strcmp(myCell(:,1),'apples'),2)

[Jonathan Pinko]

This works perfectly, thank you.