How to delete spaces and '[ ', ']' characters from all data array string cells?

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I need to remove the spaces and '[', ']' characters from the cells of a data array, I have try with the cellfun function and with:

 a(a(1,1)== '[')='' %%where 'a' is the matrix, this case only for the first    cell and '[' character

But is not working, How could be done?

Thank you in advance,

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Answer 1

Jan 2013-7-15

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Posting some example data would reduce the need to guess, what you exactly want.

CStr = {' This contains spaces ', 'This has some [ and ]'};
CStr = strrep(CStr, ' ', '');
CStr = strrep(CStr, '[', '');
CStr = strrep(CStr, ']', '');

Answer 2

Azzi Abdelmalek 2013-7-15

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a={'',1 ,[],'22'}
a(cellfun('isempty',a))=[]