Re: Matrix of strings

[A. Scottedward Hodel]

> on 11/12/99 9:43 AM, SZABO Sandor at address@hidden wrote:

> 
> 
> From: SZABO Sandor <address@hidden>
> Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:30 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Matrix of strings
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am a new octave user and I have a problem:
> I would like to create a 2 by 3 matrix A whose elements are "a", "bb",
> "ccc"; "d", "e", "f".
> Of course I would like to use the A(1,1) reference.
> Thanks in advance
> Sandor

this is not possible with the matrix data type, since it requires a single
character in the each entry of A.

In Octave, you can create an array of strings with

A = str2mat("a","bb","ccc","d","e","f")
which returns
A =

a
bb
ccc
d
e
f

and
size(A)
ans =
  6  3

You may alternatively create a list of string matrices: (2.1.x sources)

    A = list( str2mat("a","d"), str2mat("bb","e"), str2mat("ccc","f"))
    i = 2
    j = 3

Then
    nth(A,j)(i,:)
returns
    ans = f        
-- 
A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect and Computer Eng, Auburn Univ,AL
36849-5201
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