How to split characters of a cell/string in matlab?

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I have a question about a code. I have a string array and I would like to split it into pairs, depending the number of elements.
for example I have string 'CHARLES'. I would like to have a cell array with the elements C={CH, HA, AR, RL, LE, ES}. (I mean one cell array with 1x6 (length-1) dimensions)
my code is:
g='CHARLES'
length(g)
for i=1:(length(g)-1)
C=horzcat(g(i),g(i+1))
%charArray(i) = [AL(i){:}]
end
How must I modify my code? Could you please help me?

Accepted Answer

Voss
Voss on 3 Mar 2023
g='CHARLES';
C = cellstr([g(1:end-1); g(2:end)].').'
C = 1×6 cell array
{'CH'} {'HA'} {'AR'} {'RL'} {'LE'} {'ES'}
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Ivan Mich
Ivan Mich on 4 Mar 2023
Edited: Ivan Mich on 4 Mar 2023
ok thank you @Voss. One more question. How could I use this command for a cell array?
I mean I have a cell array (2000x1 dimensions) and I want to use this command for each element of this array?
I write this code
for i=1:numel(g)
C(i) = cellstr([g(i)(1:end-1); g(i)(2:end)].').'
end
but no use...
Could you pelase help me?
Stephen23
Stephen23 on 4 Mar 2023
Use curly braces to access the content of cell arrays, not parentheses:
C = {'charles','hello','world'};
for k = 1:numel(C)
C{k} = cellstr([C{k}(1:end-1); C{k}(2:end)].').';
end
Checking the content:
C{:}
ans = 1×6 cell array
{'ch'} {'ha'} {'ar'} {'rl'} {'le'} {'es'}
ans = 1×4 cell array
{'he'} {'el'} {'ll'} {'lo'}
ans = 1×4 cell array
{'wo'} {'or'} {'rl'} {'ld'}
The ways to access cell arrays are explained here:

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