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I want to delete this strings in a cell arrays and this strings appeared at 590 columns, sometime in 609 column. I tried this. It worked but it doesn't delete anything. Thanks in advance for helping.
c = {'Time','DOY','VWC05','VWC10','VWC20','VWC50','T05','T10','T20','T50','PAW40','PAW65';'#','#','cm^3/cm^3','cm^3/cm^3','cm^3/cm^3','cm^3/cm^3','°C','°C','°C','°C','mm','mm'}% cell array of strings
row_to_delete = all( cellfun(@(c) ischar(c) && strcmp(c,'Time'), SMdate), 1);
SMdate(row_to_delete, :) = [];
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Sonisa
Sonisa on 25 Feb 2016
Thank you so much Walter for your response. I finally figured out by using strcmp function.
Muhammad Usman Saleem
Muhammad Usman Saleem on 26 Feb 2016
@Sonisa if you find solution of your question then please accept answer of @walter for reward of assistance

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 25 Feb 2016
You have all(..., 1) which applies the all() by column. The result would be a logical row vector, 1 by number of columns. But you then use that logical vector as a row index instead of as a column index.

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Muhammad Usman Saleem
Muhammad Usman Saleem on 25 Feb 2016

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