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Re: Arrays of Strings


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: Re: Arrays of Strings
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:12:38 -0400

On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Peter Norlindh wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have formed an array, B, of strings.
>  
> A = ["one"; "two"; "three"];
> B = cellstr (A);
>  
> I would like to use the individual strings in a function, but cannot get to 
> them.  For example:
>  
> B (1, 1)
> >> [1,1] = one   (..as opposed to >>"one", which is what I want)
>  
> How can I fish out the strings "one", "two" and "three"?
>  
> /hpon

You can do what you want by using the curly parentheses to index the cell.

B = {"one", "two", "three"};
B{1}
ans = one

Ben



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