To delete the empty fields in the dataset

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Dear all, Could you please help me that I faced the difficulty to do the data set to be tidy up? I want to delete the empty fields in the data set. The data set(53x2 cell array) is below;
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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 Apr 2016
Is it a cell array or what? What is its size? do you mean to delete the entire row?
Khaing Zin Htwe
Khaing Zin Htwe on 27 Apr 2016
this data set is 53x2 Cell Array,sir. I want to delete only these empty fields showed below:

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Accepted Answer

Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 27 Apr 2016
V={5 [];4 6;[] 8;7 8;[] []}
idx=cellfun(@isempty,V)
V(any(idx,2),:)=[]
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Khaing Zin Htwe
Khaing Zin Htwe on 9 May 2016
Dear Azzi Abdelmalek , May i also know how to reduce the empty fields of array.I have the array [1 0 0 2 3 5 6 0 2 8 0].I want to delete these empty columns of this array.It is so easy for you,i think.Please help me,sir.
Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 9 May 2016
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 9 May 2016
If there are empty element, that means you haven't to delete them, because they don't exist, unless you mean to delete the zero elements, in this case
array=[1 0 0 2 3 5 6 0 2 8 0]
out=nonzeros(array)'

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Elias Gule
Elias Gule on 29 Apr 2016
Now, try this
V = {1,2,[],[],23,16,'A',struct()}; % your cell array
V = V(~cellfun('isempty'),V);

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