Hi I have a cell array 2 x 1000. the first column holds numeric (double) values, the second holds a string. i would like the find all cells in the first column that are above a certain value, and bring back the corresponding cells in the second column. I have tried strcamp and various others but obviously they are for strings. I also tried doing
sortrows(mycell(1,:));
so i could pick the first 50 rows off or whateever, but this didn't seem to order the cell array. but really i would like to specifiy a threshold on the first column of the cell array.
How do I do this?
thanks.
If C is your cell array:
nums = [C{:,1}];
{:} converts C into a comma separated list (so {:,1} only converts the first column) and then [] collects the results into a normal array. After that it's simple:
index = nums > Threshold;
C(index,:)
OR in a one liner:
C([C{:,1}] > Threshold, :) %// Or C([C{:,1}] > Threshold, 2) as Luis said
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I have a cell data containing one row and four column. What i am trying to do is to go through elements in first column and see if an year '2018' is seen in the first column of each cell. When i perform this code, it will only give me the indices containing '2018' in the fourth cell. Not all the cells. Any help will be appreciated.
time = cellfun(#x, contains(x,'2018'),data{ii}(:,1))
I have created a small data sample as part of an example which I hope will help you solve the problem.
%Create cell array of strings.
data = {["2018","date","2018";"stack","cell2018","fun"],["data","stackoverflow","2018";"array","variable","data2018"]}
%Search for substring 2018 in the first column of every cell.
time = cellfun(#(x) contains(x(:,1),'2018'),data,'UniformOutput',0)
The output of time is a logical cell array:
>>time
{2×1 logical} {2×1 logical}
>>time{1}
1
0
>>time{2}
0
0
For the first cell, the column contains 2018 and stack, therefore 1 and 0 are returned.
For the second cell, the column contains data and array, therefore 0 and 0 are returned.
If you wish to find the indexes from the logical array, you can use the find function with outputs [row,col].
I am trying to extract specific columns from a "nested" array, the columns I need are nested, there are about a thousand columns, of which I only need the ones marked by index in another part of the array.
I have one Array{1,15} containing cells with numerical values (e.g. 2,5,10,53). These values are the index numbers i need to extract from another array.
indexnum = OutArray{1,15}(:);
Which arranges them in a column instead of a row, totally not necessary but seemed easier for me to progress with this.
Then I have the array containing the actual columns I want to extract/copy to a new array.
OutArray{1,14}{i,1}
So by the example numbers above, I need to copy column 2,5,10 and 53 to another array.
One of my more current attempts looks like this:
NewArray = []; %create new array
indexnum = OutArray{1,15}(:); %copy right index values to column
for i = indexnum{:} %use numeric value of every cell
NewArray = [NewArray, OutArray{1,14}{1,i}] %copy corresponding columns to NewArray
end
I also tried to use cell2mat(indexnum(1,:)), but that didn't help either.
To make clear the structure of the array:
OutArray{1,15} Contains cells with 1 value per column, which are index numbers for other array
OutArray{1,14} contains nested cells, 1 cell per column
OutArray{1,14}{1,x} contains columns with ~30 values per column, of which I want to copy the columns with the right indexes
For another array in which I just needed to copy all columns this code worked fine:
new1 = [];
for i = 1:length(OutArray{1,4})
new1 = [new1, OutArray{1,4}{i,1}]
end
It was a bit hard to understand because of so many cells into cells but your screenshots were very helpful. I will first highlight the errors and needed changes in your attemp:
NewArray = []; %create new array
indexnum = OutArray{1,15}(:); %copy right index values to column
for i = indexnum{:} %use numeric value of every cell
NewArray = [NewArray, OutArray{1,14}{1,i}] %copy corresponding columns to NewArray
end
Doing OutArray{1,15}(:) is exactly the same as OutArray{1,15} as you are just selecting the full cell of cells.
Your for loop uses indexnum{:} as the iterator but {:} returns a comma separated list and it does not work like (:) for arrays that give the full vector instead. In this case, when you assign indexnum{:} to a variable you get only the first element of the list. An example to ilustrate this:C = {1, 2, 3}; C{:} displays the full list, but x = C{:} only makes x = 1. To get all the elements you could group them in an array by doing: x = [C{:}].
So in your case you just need to add brackets to for i = [indexnum{:}] to get the iterator working.
To sum up, your code would be changed to:
NewArray = []; %create new array
indexnum = OutArray{1,15}; %copy right index values to column
for i = [indexnum{:}]
NewArray = [NewArray, OutArray{1,14}{1,i}}];
end
In addition, you could avoid the for loop and variables initialization with this single line code:
NewArray = [OutArray{1,14}{1,[OutArray{1,15}{1,:}]}];
As you can see, it just takes row 1 of your data OutArray{1,14} and the columns specified at each element of the indexes OutArray{1,15}. Brackets are needed twice because when indexing a cell with curly braces with more than one index at a time you always get a list and need to convert into an array as explained above.
I am trying to write the output from a variable length cell array to a single column cell array.
Eg:
I have
A a;b
B c
C b;c
D a;b;d
E e;g;h
F a;b
as the input file. I want to read all the entries in the second column into separate cells in a row and store the output as the following:
a
b
c
b
c
a
b
d.... and so on.
I tried
for m=1:size(txt)
c(:,m)=strsplit(txt{m},';');
end
However, I am unable to write the output into a column and getting the following error:
Assignment has more non-singleton rhs dimensions than non-singleton subscripts
I understand that the dimensions of c should be more than that of size(txt) but I am not sure how to enter write the output from c into the first empty cell present in the column.
This is because you have declared c to be a matrix but you want it to be a single column. In addition, strsplit creates a cell array of results here each split string is placed in an element in the cell array. Also, this cell array is a row-wise cell array, meaning that you will get a cell array of dimensions 1 x N where N is the total number of strings resulting from the call the strsplit.
As such, what I would recommend you do is create a master cell array to store all of the strings as you iterate through each row, then concatenate and create one final cell array at the end.
Assuming the code you wrote up until this point is correct, do something like this:
c = cell(numel(txt), 1);
for m = 1 : numel(txt)
c{m} = strsplit(txt{m}, ';');
end
c = horzcat(c{:});
The first line creates a master cell array to store our string split characters per line of the text file. Next, for each line of the file, we split the string with the semicolon character as the delimiter and we place these split results into the right cell in the master array. Once this is finished, we use horzcat to place all of the characters into a single row of cells in the end. This creates a row of cell array elements though. Using horzcat is required as we are concatenating many row-wise cell arrays together into a single row. Trying to do this vertically will give you an error. Simply transpose the result if you want a column:
c = horzcat(c{:}).';
I have a 16x100 (varies in size) cell array and I would like to extract each of it's columns into a column of a matrix. When each column of the cell array contains an identical number of entries I can use:
elem = numel([dist{:,1}]);
repeat = size(dist,2);
data = zeros(elem,repeat);
for k=1:repeat
results(:,k) = [dist{:,k}]';
end
However there are some instances where there are not an equal number thus it returns the error:
Subscripted assignment dimension mismatch.
What is the best way around this? Is there a way to add zeroes to equalise the number of entries?
Perfect setup for bsxfun's masking capability here!
Now, I am assuming your data is setup as described in your previous question -
To solve the case of filling up "empty spaces" with zeros, you can setup an output array with maximum possible number of elements in each column and then fillup the valid spaces with the values from the input cell array, with the valid spaces being detected by the logical mask created with bsxfun. Read on through the comments inlined within the code listed next to find out the exact ideas on solving it -
%// Get the number of elements in each column of the input cell array
lens = sum(cellfun('length',a),1)
%// Store the maximum number of elements possible in any column of output array
max_lens = max(lens)
%// Setup output array, with no. of rows as max number of elements in each column
%// and no. of columns would be same as the no. of columns in input cell array
results = zeros(max_lens,numel(lens))
%// Create as mask that has ones to the "extent" of number of elements in
%// each column of the input cell array using the lengths
mask = bsxfun(#le,[1:max_lens]',lens) %//'
%// Finally, store the values from input cell array into masked positions
results(mask) = [a{:}]
I have a 6 x 3 cell (called strat) where the first two columns contain text, the last column has either 1 or 2.
I want to take a subset of this cell array. Basically select only the rows where the last column has a 1 in it.
I tried the following,
ff = strat(strat(:, 3), 1:2) == 1;
The error message is,
Function 'subsindex' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.
How can I index into a cell array?
Cell arrays are accessed through braces {} instead of parentheses (). Then, as a 2nd subtlety, when pulling values out of a cell arrays, you need to gather them...for numerics you gather them into regular arrays using [] and for strings you gather them into a new cell array using {}. Confusing, eh?
ff = { strat{ [strat{:,3}]==1 , 1:2 } };
Gathering into cell arrays this way can often give the wrong shape when you're done. So, you might try something like this
ind = find([strat{:,3}]==1); %find the relevant indices
ff = {{strat{ind,1}; strat{ind,2}}'; %this will probably give you the right shape