Find length of a structure element and remove them according to length?

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If I have a structure "output" with a field "output.I".
How can I check the lengths of all the output(1:end).I in one go and then remove the those rows from the structure that I do not require.
For example
output(1).I has a length of 100X1
output(2).I has a length of 200X1
output(3).I has a length of 100X1
I want to remove output(2).I = [] and my final structure to only have output(1).I and output(3).I
Please advise.
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Rik
Rik on 26 Mar 2018
Do you want to remove the structure element, or just empty out the field? The latter can be easily solved with a loop (and there may be several methods to do it faster), while the first is quite tricky (and will cause your elements to be renumbered).
Arif Ahmed
Arif Ahmed on 26 Mar 2018
Edited: Arif Ahmed on 26 Mar 2018
I want to remove the element. The indexing will be an issue and so I was thinking maybe there is an easy way to do it.

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Accepted Answer

Jos (10584)
Jos (10584) on 27 Mar 2018
L = arrayfun(@(k) numel(output(k).I), 1:numel(output))
output(L > 100) = [] ; % remove those elements of the structure array

More Answers (2)

Stephen23
Stephen23 on 27 Mar 2018
Edited: Stephen23 on 27 Mar 2018
Simpler:
len = arrayfun(@(s)numel(s.I),output);
output(len>100) = []
Or simplest:
len = cellfun('length',{output.I});
output(len>100) = []

Arif Ahmed
Arif Ahmed on 27 Mar 2018
If I could I would accept all answers. Amazing guys! Thanks for the help.
Stephen Cobeldick, your code is really simple! Appreciate it.

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