cell2strarr
by Tim C. Lueth, SG-Lib Toolbox: SolidGeometry 5.6 - Artificial Intelligence
Introduced first in SolidGeometry 5.4, Creation date: 2023-12-07, Last change: 2025-09-15
converts string arrays in cell lines into a string array
Description
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See Also: strarr2cell
, stringpatternpermute
Example Illustration
Syntax
stra=cell2strarr(ccc,[joinch])
Input Parameter
ccc: | | cell list of string lines |
joinch: | | if a joint char is used the string array has only one column |
Output Parameter
Examples
yyy={["c" "table" "space" "b" "a"];["c" "table" "space" ]}
cell2strarr(yyy) % 2 x 5 array
cell2strarr(yyy," ") % 2 x 1 array
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Algorithm (Workflow)
This function, cell2strarr, converts a cell list of string lines into a string array. It is part of the SolidGeometry library and was introduced in version 5.4.
Input Parameters
- ccc: A cell list containing string lines. Each element of the cell list is expected to be a string or an array of strings.
- joinch: An optional parameter. If provided, it is used as a joint character to concatenate strings, resulting in a string array with only one column.
Output
- stra: The resulting string array. Its structure depends on whether
joinch is provided.
Algorithm Steps
- Retrieve the
joinch parameter using getfuncparams. If not provided, default to an empty string.
- Determine the number of lines,
nl, in the input cell list ccc.
- Initialize an empty array
ni to store the number of elements in each line.
- Iterate over each line in
ccc:
- Convert each line to a string using
cell2strlines and split it by ', ' to get individual elements.
- Store the number of elements in
ni.
- Check if
joinch is empty:
- If empty, initialize
stra as a 2D string array with dimensions nl by max(ni).
- For each line, split it into elements and assign them to the corresponding row in
stra.
- If
joinch is not empty:
- Initialize
stra as a 1D string array with nl elements.
- For each line, split it into elements, join them using
joinch, and assign the result to stra.
Example Usage
Given a cell array yyy:
yyy = {["c" "table" "space" "b" "a"]; ["c" "table" "space"]};
cell2strarr(yyy) results in a 2 x 5 array.cell2strarr(yyy, " ") results in a 2 x 1 array.
Algorithm explaination created using ChatGPT on 2025-08-19 07:16. (Please note: No guarantee for the correctness of this explanation)
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