MATLAB Programming Fundamentals - MathWorks

x = 3.1416 2.7180 whos Name Size Bytes Class Attributes c 3x1 380 cell d 3x1 24 double str 1x2 196 string x 1x2 16 double Conver ...

Frequently Asked Questions About String Arrays MATLAB introduced the string data type in R2016b. Starting in R2018b, you can use ...

load "myVariables.mat" Error using load Unable to read file '"myVariables.mat"': Invalid argument. In command form, double quote ...

str = ["Venus","Earth","Mars"]; TF = contains(str,"Earth"); Before R2016b, the term "cell array of strings" meant a cell array w ...

L = 11 L = strlength(str) L = 11 You also can use strlength on string arrays containing multiple strings and on cell arrays of c ...

To test whether a piece of text has no characters, the best practice is to use the strlength function. You can use the same call ...

As an alternative, you can use the strcat function. strcat appends text whether the input arguments are strings or character vec ...

Update Your Code to Accept Strings In R2016b, MATLAB introduced string arrays as a data type for text. In a future release, all ...

character vector (using single quotes). Best practice is to update the function so that the argument can be specified as either ...

character array or a string array. For example, the readtable function provides the 'TextType' name-value pair argument. This ar ...

accept string arrays as inputs, add a call to convertStringsToChars at the beginnings of your functions and methods. For example ...

Functions Accept any text data types as input arguments. If an input argument can be a string array, then also allow it to be a ...

How to Maintain Compatibility in New Code When you write new code, or modify code to use string arrays as the primary text data ...

How to Manually Convert Input Arguments If it is at all possible, avoid manual conversion of input arguments that contain text, ...

Required Input Argument Type Old Check New Check (ischar(X) || isStringScalar(X)) && X ~= "" Cell array of character vec ...

Check for Empty String Arrays An empty string array is, in fact, an empty array—that is, an array that has at least one dimensio ...

Character vector — 1 -by-n array of characters, of data type char. Character array — m-by-n array of characters, of data type c ...

Function Summary MATLAB provides these functions for working with character arrays: Functions to Create Character Arrays Functi ...

Functions to Read and Operate on Character Arrays Function Description eval Execute a MATLAB expression. sscanf Read a character ...

Functions to Convert Between Numeric and Text Data Types Function Description char Convert to a character array. cellstr Convert ...