The handy helper here is cellfun
, with the correct option for nonscalar output - we tell it to run sort
on each element of the cell array in turn:
>> a = {'dcb' 'aetk' 'acb'}
a =
{
[1,1] = dcb
[1,2] = aetk
[1,3] = acb
}
>> b = cellfun(@sort, a, 'UniformOutput', false);
b =
{
[1,1] = bcd
[1,2] = aekt
[1,3] = abc
}