Question

i have a cell u(38,1) each row has string looking like this : for example

u{​​​​​1,1}​​​​​ = ''198823 765389 white''

u{​​​​​2,1}​​​​​ = ''198426 725312 black''

I want the cell u to be divided in 3 colomns such as

u{​​​​​1,1}​​​​​ = ''198823'' u{​​​​​1,2}​​​​​= ''765389'' u{​​​​​1,3}​​​​​=''white''

u{​​​​​2,1}​​​​​ = ''198426'' u{​​​​​2,1}​​​​​= ''725312'' u{​​​​​2,3}​​​​​=''black''

so basically I want my u(38,1) to become u(38,3)

I have tried strplit, but it seems like it won't work with a cell,

strplit(u,',') %doesn't work'

strplit(u{​​​​​1,1}​​​​​,',') %works on the first line and returns a cell (1,3)

Answer 1

%simplest solution is using a for loop to split one by one

clear
clc
u{1,1}="198823 765389 white";
u{2,1}="198426 725312 black";
for i=1:length(u)
tokens=strsplit(u{i});
u{i,1}=tokens(1);
u{i,2}=tokens(2);
u{i,3}=tokens(3);
end
disp(u)