Please read the Getting Started chapters of the documentation and study Matlab's Onramp to learn the basics.
Do not increase the loop counter of a for loop manually. This is confusing only,because the loop ignores the changes.
isempty(names(ii,2)) does not, what you expect. names(ii,2) is a cell, which contains an empty char vector, so it is not empty. The contents is empty, so you need the curly braces: names{ii,2}
The delete command does not remove elements from an error, see:
doc delete
If you delete an element of an array, the rest of the array is shifted to the top. Then a loop would overse the following element.
A solution for your problem:
emptyElem = cellfun('isempty', names(:, 2));
names = names(~emptyElem, :);
Or with a loop:
toDelete = false(1, 333);
for ii =1:333
toDelete(ii) = isempty(names{ii,2});
end
names(toDelete, :) = [];
