str2mat

(Not recommended) Form blank-padded character array from strings

str2mat is not recommended. Use char instead.

Syntax

S = str2mat(T1, T2, T3, ...)

Description

S = str2mat(T1, T2, T3, ...) forms the character array S containing the character arrays T1, T2, T3, ... as rows. The function automatically pads each row with blanks so that every row of S has the same number of characters. Each input argument, Ti, can itself be a character array with one or more rows. This function allows for the creation of arbitrarily large character arrays. Empty character arrays are significant.

Examples

x = str2mat('36842', '39751', '38453', '90307');

whos x
  Name      Size         Bytes  Class

  x         4x5             40  char array

x(2,3)

ans =

    7

Tips

str2mat differs from strvcat in that empty character arrays produce blank rows in the output. In strvcat, empty character arrays are ignored.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

See Also