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From: Jan Simon on 27 Mar 2010 20:26
Dear forkandwait w!

> Is there a quick way to recode a cell array of strings, preferably using a 2xN cell array of pattern/ code pairs?
>
> For example:
> a = {'aa', 'ab', 'cc', 'aa'}
> recode (a, {'a.*', 'A'; 'c.*', 'C'})
> => {'A', 'A', 'C', 'A'}
>
> Maybe there is a nice way to do this with cellfun, but there might be an idiom or function special made that I don't know about.

Please offer some more examples to show the general problem.
For this example, this would work:
a = {'aa', 'ab', 'cc', 'aa'}
upper(cellfun(@(c) c(1), 'UniformOutput', false))

Kind regards, Jan
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