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Re: convert dec to char


From: Juan Pablo Carbajal
Subject: Re: convert dec to char
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:44:05 +0100

On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Victor Hanby <address@hidden> wrote:
> I want to permutate a character string. This works in matlab:
>
> str=‘abc’;
> perms(str);
>
> but not in Octave, which seems to expect a decimal argument. I guess the 
> matlab version of perms is overloaded? To get this to run in Octave, I can 
> use toascii(str) and then permutate the resulting vector, but I can’t figure 
> out how to  convert this back to a string. There doesn’t seem to be an 
> inverse of ‘toascii’?
>
> Vic
>
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You can do
str = 'abce';
str(perms(1:length(str)))



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