how i can get the first and second letters in cell data

hello all;

i want to get the first and second letters of each row

letters={'Aliadan';'FadumoHassan'; 'Buraaleabi';'kadradahir'};

so, how i can assign first charac of each row in one vector and the second character in each row in another vector.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

This can be easily achieved using cellfun and a simple anonymous function:

>> vec = {'Aliadan'; 'FadumoHassan'; 'Buraaleabi'; 'kadradahir'};
>> cellfun(@(s)s(1),vec)
ans =
A
F
B
k
>> cellfun(@(s)s(2),vec)
ans =
l
a
u
a

Answer 2

[Purushottama Rao]

for k=1:4
f(k)=letters{k}(1);
end
for k=1:4
g(k)=letters{k}(2);
end

Answer 3

[singh]

 for k=1:length(letters)
f(k)=letters{k}(1)
g(k)=letters{k}(2)
end