how do I extract part of a cell of string values?

I have a 1x144 cell of string values all with 12 numbers like '201808250100'. I want to extract a cell of just the last four numbers of each value. Any help with this would be appreciated

Answer 1

[Christopher Wallace]

You could use a cell function.

cellfun(@(x) x(end-3:end), your_var, 'UniformOutput', false)

[Paolo]

Mind that Susan mentioned she is working with a cell array of strings, and not character vectors.

[Christopher Wallace]

Yes, Susan said that she had a cell of strings, not a character array which cellstr is meant to convert.

Answer 2

[Paolo]

You could loop over it:

arr = {"201808250100","201808250104"}
f=cellstr(arr);
cellfun(@(x) x(end-3:end),f,'un',0)

ans =

    1×2 cell array

      {'0100'}    {'0104'}