Keep strings seperated in array

So I have a structure with three types of conditions 'dcol', 'dsym' & 'c'

I want to filter through the structure per condition using indexing however this doesn't work:

c = [participant.condition]

gives: 'dcolcdsymdcoldcoldsymdcolcdsymdsymdcoldcolcdcol' > I want them to be seperated per condition

RT = [participant.RT]

i = c == 'c' > logical array out of bound cause it takes every character rather than every string

[madhan ravi]

Unclear

[Nathalie Borst]

So now it merges all the seperate strings 'c', 'dcol', 'dsym, 'c', 'dsym, 'c', 'dcol' etc to one long string 'cdcoldsymcdsym' when I do c = [participant.condition]

When I want to look through those conditions for condition 'c' it now looks at every character which in this example would give a logical array of [1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0], whereas I want this as output: [1 0 0 1 0 1] when I do i = c == 'c'

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

s = struct('abc', {'def', 'ghi', 'jkl'})

s = 1x3 struct array with fields:
    abc

charVec = [s.abc]

charVec = 'defghijkl'

cellVec = {s.abc}

cellVec = 1x3 cell array
    {'def'}    {'ghi'}    {'jkl'}

[Nathalie Borst]

Thanks for your reply! However, when I create a cell array I can't filter. When I try: cellVec == 'def'. How can I get a logical array of all the rows containing 'def' showing a one and everything else a 0?