How to convert a cell array of strings into a matrix of strings?

I have a cell array of strings 763x6 cell. I want to convert this cell array into a matrix of strings to be able to use strsplit function which accepts a string as input. Any help? NOTE: When I try to use cell2mat I got an error Error using cat Dimensions of matrices being concatenated are not consistent The content of my cell array looks like this:

'pla pla pla' 'pla pla pla' 'pla pla pla' 'pla pla pla' 'pla pla pla' 'pla pla pla'

Solution

Rather than turning into a matrix you can just operate on the cell array since it seems like you have different-sized data in each element which makes it nearly impossible to combine into a character array:

Use cellfun to call strsplit on each entry

out = cellfun(@strsplit, data, 'uniformoutput', false);

Just use regexp to split the string which automatically accepts cell array inputs
```
out = regexp(data, '\s+', 'split');
```

Personally, I prefer the second approach and as @excaza pointed out in the comments, strplit calls regexp internally anyhow.