Deleting a Cell and shifting cells left

I need to remove the n-th data (in a 1xn vector) and shift over the rest of the contents to the left by one. How would I do this?

Assume we had a cell array

a = {'1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9'}.

We want to delete the third entry and move over all of the data.

a{3}={}

So then

a={'1' '2' '' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9'}.

Move data 1 column to the left to get rid of empty space

a={'1' '2' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9'}.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

a = {'1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8' '9'}
a(3)=[]

[Ibro Tutic]

Much easier than I thought, perfect.

[Paul Wintz]

It's worth noting that a(3)=[] deletes the entry, but a{3}=[] sets the entry to contain an empty array.

[Aurelien Gregor]

Thanks for this note.