white space in cell array

 am using textscan to read text file and I get <55x1 cell> examples:

 'aa a aa'
 'a  aaaa a'
 'a =  aaaaa'
 'aaaaaa'
 ' a a a aaa'
 'aa'
 'aaa'
 'aaaa'
  .
  . 
  .
  .

I want to delete the white spaces in each sting. for example, If I have a sting

 string = 'I am 24 Years    old'

And I use

string(ismember(string,' ')) = [];

it will eliminate the spaces and I will get

 'Iam24Yearsold'

But with the cell doesn't work or I don't know how to do it How can I do that? any suggestions please?

Answer 1

[Andrei Bobrov]

string = 'I am 24 Years    old';

strrep(string,' ','');

for cell array

string = {'I am 24 Years    old';'I am 24 Years    old'}

strrep(string,' ','');

[Jack_111]

My problem is, in applying it to a my cell array

[Andrei Bobrov]

see 'for cell..' part in my answer

[Jan]

+1: STRREP operates on cell directly.

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

s={'aa a aa'; 'a  aaaa a'; 'a =  aaaaa'}
out=cellfun(@(x) x(~ismember(x,' ')),s,'un',0)

[Jan]

A simplification:

cellfun(@(x) x(x~=' ')), s, 'un', 0)