search through cell elements that contain a string, then delete it

Question

Hi I want to search a cell array for any elements containing the letter 'x'. I can delete a cell element by doing the following:

mycell(3) = []

but trying to search through the elements id the difficult part. I am using:

offending_cell  = strcmp('x', mycell);

however this is just picking out all elements regardless of x appearing in them. Anyone have any suggestions?

Answer 1

There you go:

ind = (~cellfun('isempty',(regexp(mycell,'x'))));

This gives logical indices for cells that contain 'x'. If you want to delete those cells:

mycell(ind) = [];

The problem with you apporach was that strcmp looks for exact matching, not if the string contains a given character.