convertStringToCharArgs

Convert string arrays to character arrays or cell of char vectors.

📝 Syntax

• C = convertStringToCharArgs(S)

📥 Input argument

• S - Input string scalar or string array. If S is a string scalar, the output C is a character vector. If S is a string array, C is returned as a cell array of character vectors.

📤 Output argument

• C - Character vector (for scalar string input) or cell array of character vectors (for string arrays). If the input was not a string, C is the unmodified input.

📄 Description

convertStringToCharArgs converts either a cell array of string values or a string array into a cell array of character vectors.

To convert a single string scalar to a character vector, use the char function instead.

This conversion is required because some functions (example set or get) currently do not accept string inputs.

💡 Example

Convert a string scalar to a char vector and a string array to a cell of char vectors.

% Scalar string -> char vector
C = convertStringToCharArgs("Nelson")
% String array -> cell array of char vectors
C2 = convertStringToCharArgs({"a",'b'; 1,"d"})

🔗 See also

convertCharsToStrings, cellstr, string, char.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.15.0	initial version