General
abs	Absolute value and complex magnitude
eval	Interpret strings containing MATLAB expressions
real	Real part of complex number
strings	MATLAB string handling
String Manipulation
deblank	Strip trailing blanks from the end of a string
findstr	Find one string within another
lower	Convert string to lower case
strcat	String concatenation
strcmp	Compare strings
strcmpi	Compare strings ignoring case
strjust	Justify a character array
strmatch	Find possible matches for a string
strncmp	Compare the first n characters of two strings
strrep	String search and replace
strtok	First token in string
strvcat	Vertical concatenation of strings
upper	Convert string to upper case
String to Number Conversion
char	Create character array (string)
int2str	Integer to string conversion
mat2str	Convert a matrix into a string
num2str	Number to string conversion
sprintf	Write formatted data to a string
sscanf	Read string under format control
str2num	String to number conversion
Radix Conversion
bin2dec	Binary to decimal number conversion
dec2bin	Decimal to binary number conversion
dec2hex	Decimal to hexadecimal number conversion
hex2dec	IEEE hexadecimal to decimal number conversion
hex2num	Hexadecimal to double number conversion