how to convert text values between char arrays

Hi everybody,

I have a char/cell array like this A=['a';'bb';'ccc';'a';'ccc';'ccc';'bb'] and I want a new char/cell array like this B['xxx';'yy';'z';'xxx';'z';'z';'yy'], where 'a'='xxx', 'bb'='yy' and 'ccc'='z', How can I get this score? This is just an exemple, imagine that my A array is a char array 86x5 or bigger.

Thanks a lot.

[giovanni negro]

I tried with strrep and it worked but I had to replace every single value like this: A1=strrep(A,'a','xxx') A2=strrep(A1,'bb','yy') A3=strrep(A2,'ccc','z')

For sure there is a smarter way...

Answer 1

[Harish Ramachandran]

Create two vectors containing the correlation between the original word and the substitution word.

Then use a element-wise function like arrayfun or cellfun (in the case of cell array) in order to apply the strrep function to each element of the array by passing it as a function handle.