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matlabcellaverage

determine average length of cells in a cell array

Hi I have a cell array in matlab, where the cells are of differing lengths. how do i determine the average length of the cells.

I have tried:

mean(length(mycell{:});

however this is too many inputs for the mean function.

Thanks.

Solution

  • Use cellfun

    mean( cellfun( @length, mycell ) )

    BTW, for some of the builtin functions it might be better to write

    mean( cellfun( 'length', mycell ) )