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.

Yunpeng Teng on 5 Dec 2020

Problem say cell is n*1 ,but example is 1*n

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A C on 3 Jan 2021 at 16:26

when the code is rewritten as y = [y {s(S:Ind(E))}];, it includes the spaces. But, when the code is rewritten y =[y cellstr(s(S:Ind(E)))] it leaves the spaces out. Why does it do that?

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Gregory Fenn on 15 Dec 2020

The question asks for an Nx1 cell array but the correct answer is a 1xN cell array. Please fix this lie.. it threw me off badly

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源樹上林 on 22 Aug 2020

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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