Method Reference: string.cell

string: c_arr = cell (str)

Convert string array to a cell array.

c_arr = cell (str) returns a cell array, c_arr, which has the same size as the input string str. All elements in str that represent real or complex numbers are converted to equivalent double values, whereas all other non-missing elements are converted to character vectors. Zero-length strings are converted to '' empty character vectors, while missing values are returned as [] empty numeric vectors.

Source Code: string

Example: 1

cell also returns a cell array of character vectors (like cellstr).

 s = string ({'a'; 'b'; 'c'})
s =
  3x1 string array

    "a"    
    "b"    
    "c"
 cell (s)
ans =
  3x1 cell array

    {'a'}    
    {'b'}    
    {'c'}