Convert from cell to string

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Zoltán Csáti
Zoltán Csáti 2014-11-2
评论： Guillaume 2014-11-6
I have the following problem. I have a sentence as a string. I wan to process some words in it. My idea was to isolate the words using textscan and then unite the resulting cell array of strings to one string to gain the modified sentence. However I can not do the last step. I would like to have converted the cell array to a matrix first so that the matrix was converted to a string, but I could not perform it because the elements of the cell array contains strings of different length. What can I do?
Example:
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
extracted = textscan(sentence, '%s');
extracted = extracted{1};
for k = 1:numel(extracted)
extracted{k}(1) = 'a';
end
% Now I should rearrange it to form a single string (the same format as the string "sentence").

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Ahmet Cecen
Ahmet Cecen 2014-11-2
编辑：Ahmet Cecen 2014-11-2
Do you specifically need it to be a cell array at the end? Why not just use a recursive string concatenation? Something like:
newsentence='';
for i=1:numel(extracted)
newsentence=strcat(newsentence,' ',extracted{i});
end
% '' in the middle is space between words.
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Zoltán Csáti
Zoltán Csáti 2014-11-3
Thank you for your idea. The reason why I accepted your answer can be found in my comment on Image Analyst's answer. However I must note that the strcat function omits white spaces even if I use a white space delimiter between the words. I solved it by using horzcat instead of strcat.

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Star Strider
Star Strider 2014-11-2
The strsplit function is your friend here:
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
strvct = strsplit(sentence, '.','CollapseDelimiters',0);
newsent = sprintf('%s',char(strvct)')
produces:
newsent =
I am a MATLAB user
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Zoltán Csáti
Zoltán Csáti 2014-11-6
In fact I wanted to solve this problem at Cody. I managed to solve it (see my attached file), but I think there are easier methods. Perhaps you could offer a more elegant way.
Guillaume
Guillaume 2014-11-6
As you saw in your code, with textscan, you only split at blank spaces, so punctuation gets included in your word. So to start with, a regular expression would allow you to detect proper word boundaries. The regular expression '[A-Za-z]+' would detect a sequence of one or more letters and letters only. Thus to get the start and end of each word, you could use:
[startword, endword] = regexp(sentence, '[A-Za-z]+');
and use the indices to swap the letters of the word.
However, there is also regexprep which allows you to use regular expressions to detect and replace part of a string and since you can include matlab commands in the replacement string, you can do it all with a single regexprep.
The first thing you want to do is detect and capture the first, the inside, and the last letters of a word. The inside letters, you want to swap with fliplr. The captures are done with brackets (), so the regular expression is '([A-Za-z])([A-Za-z]+)([A-Za-z])', that is one letter, one or more letters, one letter. In your replacement you want the first and third capture intact and the 2nd flipped, so your replacement string is '$1${fliplr($2)}$3', leading to:
regexprep(sIn, '([a-zA-Z])([a-zA-Z]+)([a-zA-Z])', '$1${fliplr($2)}$3');
One of the winning solution for that cody problem. Instead of using captures you could use look-ahead and look-behind for the first and last letters but the principle is the same. It's just the syntax of the regex and replacement string that changes.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst 2014-11-2
I use John D.Errico's allwords() http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27184-allwords
sentence = 'I am a MATLAB user.';
theSeparateWords = allwords(sentence)
newSentence = sprintf('%s ', theSeparateWords{:})
In the command window:
theSeparateWords =
'I' 'am' 'a' 'MATLAB' 'user'
newSentence =
I am a MATLAB user
It's a cell array of course because the strings are of different lengths.
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Zoltán Csáti
Zoltán Csáti 2014-11-3
Since I have to process all words in the sentence I already have a for loop. Within that loop, I can use recursive string concatenation as Ahmet Cecen described it. First I thought it would save me time, but when I tested it on a 90000 long string, it turned out that his and your solution takes almost the same time to run. So the only reason why I accepted his method is that it does only need built-in functions. Thank you anyway.

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