Extracing the part of the string from cell array

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I have a cell array a = {'abc__first__element' ; 'def__second__element'; ghi__third__element'}
I want to extract the string after first '__'
My final answer should be a = {'first__element'; 'second__element'; 'third__element'}
How can do this?
Thanks a lot

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Paolo
Paolo on 25 Jun 2018
regexp(a,'(?<=__)(.*)','match')
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 25 Jun 2018
+1 nice and simple. To avoided nested cell arrays in the output use the 'once' option:
regexp(a,'(?<=__)(.*)','match','once')
Paolo
Paolo on 25 Jun 2018
Good point! Would +1 your comment if that was a thing.

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