MATLAB empty cell(n,m) array of strings?

Question

What is the quickest way to create an empty cell array of strings ?

cell(n,m)

creates an empty cell array of double.

How about a similar command but creating empty strings ?

Answer 1

Depends on what you want to achieve really. I guess the simplest method would be:

repmat({''},n,m);

Answer 2

Assignment to all cell elements using the colon operator will do the job:

m = 3; n = 5;
C = cell(m,n);
C(:) = {''}