Replacing NaN with blanks in a matrix

I've a matrix which looks like the one attached. How do I replace NaNs with blank spaces without altering anything else?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Ridwan Alam]

I believe you are looking for fillmissing() or rmmissing():

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fillmissing.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/rmmissing.html

[alok pandey]

Neither fillmissing nor rmmissing addresses the issue. What I intend to do is to getting rid of all NaNs while keeping everything else intact.

Anyway, thanks Ridwan

[Ridwan Alam]

Alok, sure, just trying to help here.

If you can kindly explain what you mean by "gone". If you mean empty cells, have you ever tried to create a "matrix" with an empty cell? If you are okay with any other format, like string, you can use fillmissing() to fill in spaces. Are you looking for something like that?

blah = string(Phase_data);
blah = fillmissing(blah,'constant',"");

[alok pandey]

Thanks for the prompt reply Ridwan. So, if you open the attched mat file, you'll see that the matrix contain NaNs. I was wondering if it is possible to replace (remove) NaNs and have 'empty cells' instead. I tried fillmissing but as you said, we end up with a 'string' which I don't want.

What I was wondering is if we can we can use something like:

Phase_data(isnan(Phase_data))='empty cells';

Sorry, I'm stuck.

[Ridwan Alam]

I was wondering if it is possible to replace (remove) NaNs and have 'empty cells' instead.

Nope, I don't think that's possible. Sorry.