MATLAB partition cell array

Question

I have a cell array such that it is 128 characters long, i.e

c = {'1......128'}

What I'd like to do is break it up into chunks of 8, starting from the left, then put each 8-chunk piece into a new cell array. What is the easiest way to do this?

Answer 1

You can do it with one line

mycell = repelem('a', 128); % creating the cell

newcells = cellstr(reshape(mycell{:},8,[])'); % cells with 8 characters each

if your cell is just 1x1 with 128 characters.