Re: Matrix Help

[Andy Buckle]

On 7 October 2012 20:22, Doug Stewart <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM, isdouble <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> I need to create a matrix where it contains part name, quantity, failure
>> rate.
>> However, Octave does not accept any names so I'm having trouble creating
>> such matrix.
>> I believe in order to create a matrix you would input
>> M = [1, 2, 3;3, 2, 1]
>> But in my case I would input
>> M = [Part Name, 1, 0.0000108;...]
>> But the program does not recognize what "part name" is so I keep getting
>> an
>> error.
>> Is there any way to create a matrix table with non numbers?
>> Thank you
>>
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>  M ={"Part Name", 1, 0.0000108;"cat",2,200}
>
> does this help?

That's called a cell array.
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Cell-Arrays.html
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