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Create character array (string)
S = char(X) S = char(C) S = char(t1,t2.t3...)
S = char(X)
converts the array X that contains positive integers representing character codes into a MATLAB character array (the first 127 codes are ASCII). The actual characters displayed depend on the character set encoding for a given font. The result for any elements of X outside the range from 0 to 65535 is not defined (and may vary from platform to platform). Use double to convert a character array into its numeric codes.
S = char(C)
when C is a cell array of strings, places each element of C into the rows of the character array s. Use cellstr to convert back.
S = char(t1,t2,t3,..)
forms the character array S containing the text strings T1,T2,T3,... as rows, automatically padding each string with blanks to form a valid matrix. Each text parameter,Ti, can itself be a character array. This allows the creation of arbitarily large character arrays. Empty strings are significant.
Ordinarily, the elements of A are integers in the range 32:127, which are the printable ASCII characters, or in the range 0:255, which are all 8-bit values. For noninteger values, or values outside the range 0:255, the characters printed are determined by fix(rem(A,256)).
To print a 3-by-32 display of the printable ASCII characters:
ascii = char(reshape(32:127,32,3)')
ascii =
! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
@ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
' a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
get, set, and text in the online MATLAB Function Reference , and:
cellstr Create cell array of strings from character array
double Convert to double precision
strings MATLAB string handling
strvcat Vertical concatenation of strings