.* multiplication of a logical vector with a cell vector

[vneelamParticipant]

How can I do .* multiplication of a logical vector to a cell vector?
Multiplication is giving an error
“Undefined function ‘times’ for input arguments of type ‘cell’.”

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Neelam

[cKKeymaster]

Cells are special containers and most of the math ops are unsupported for cells. However, there exist quite some workarounds. If x is a cell with numeric elements, y=[x{:}] creates a vector y from elements of x. See cell2mat() and mat2cell(). If x is a string cell, the aforementioned op produces a row vector, with all strings of x fused together. If a column vector is desired with each row retaining the distinct elements of x, char(x{:}) or strvcat(x{:}) is the way.

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