char

Converts to a character array.

Syntax

• res = char(var)

• res = char(var1, var2)

• res = char(var1, var2, ..., varN)

Input argument

• var - a cell of strings, string array or an numeric array.

• var1, var2, ..., varN - strings or an numeric arrays.

Output argument

• res - a string

Description

char converts numerical input into character data by taking the corresponding unicode character for each element.

Examples

M = [ 104   101   108   108   111;
20320   22909 32    32    32];
char(M)

R = char('these', 'are', 'test', 'strings')

R = char(["these"; "are"; "test"; "strings"])

See also

double.

History

Version	Description
1.0.0	initial version

Author

Allan CORNET