MATLAB Function Reference

str2mat - Form blank-padded character matrix from strings

Syntax

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

Description

S = str2mat(T1, T2, T3, ...) forms the matrix S containing the text strings T1, T2, T3, ... as rows. The function automatically pads each string with blanks in order to form a valid matrix. Each text parameter, Ti, can itself be a string matrix. This allows the creation of arbitrarily large string matrices. Empty strings are significant.

Note   This routine will become obsolete in a future version. Use char instead.

Remarks

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

Examples

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

whos x
  Name      Size         Bytes  Class

  x         4x5             40  char array

x(2,3)

ans =

    7

See Also

char, strvcat

str2func

str2num