How do I eliminate strings with length < 3 from cellarray

I'm trying to remove all string with length < 3 from a cell array. But the output is not what I expect.

For example:

days = {'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday'}; abbrev = cellfun(@(x) x(length(x) > 3), days, 'UniformOutput', false)

It returns:

abbrev =

    'M'    'T'    'W'    'T'    'F'

But I need it to return the whole word that is bigger than 3.

Anyone knows how to do it?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

days = {'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday'}; 
abbrev = days(cellfun(@numel,days)>=3)

[Eduardo]

Thanks!!!

Answer 2

[sixwwwwww]

try this:

days = {'Monday', 'M', 'T', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday'};
count = 1;
for i = 1:length(days)
    if length(days{i}) > 3
    day(count) = days(i);
    count = count + 1;
    end
end

[Eduardo]

I've implemented one similar to that. But its too slow for big cell arrays.