Find smallest cell in cell array

Is there a way to find the smallest sized cell in a cell array?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

What is "size" in this context? Number of rows? Number of columns? Number of elements? Storage requirement?

Which is smaller:

   'fdoafodsif-0dsi0-0-dfs0-fds0--ds'

or

   struct('foo',3,'bar',7)

?

[Philip]

Apologies, I should definitely have made this clearer! I mean, the number of columns of each cell. Some cells are 1x128, for example, whilst some are 1x64... I would like to find the smallest cell in the cell array, so it should return 1x64 in this example.

[Walter Roberson]

[minsize, minidx] = cellfun(@(C) size(C,2), YourCell);

[Philip]

That worked perfectly, thanks so much!

[Jan]

Or slightly faster:

[minsize, minidx] = min(cellfun('size', YourCell, 2));