Working with a cell of strings

I have a large N x 1 array of cells, each cell containing a string. How do I convert this to a string array, or to a cell array of character vectors?

Answer 1

[Voss]

Use string or cellstr.

C = {"one";"two"}

C = 2×1 cell array
    {["one"]}
    {["two"]}

string(C)

ans = 2×1 string array
    "one"
    "two"

cellstr(C)

ans = 2×1 cell array
    {'one'}
    {'two'}