Problem 967. Split a string into chunks of specified length

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goc3 on 12 Dec 2016

Additional test cases have been added.

Paresh yeole on 22 Jan 2020

Problem Description says, function should return n*1, however the solutions are 1*n. Kindly, edit the problem description.

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源樹上林 on 22 Aug 2020 at 15:45

こうかな？もっと簡単に書きたい。
c = mat2cell( 1:sum(b), 1, b )
for i=1:length(c)
y{i} = s(c{i});
end

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