cast - Cast variable to different data type

Syntax

Description

B = cast(A, newclass) converts A to class newclass, where newclass is the name of a built-in data type compatible with A. The cast function truncates any values in A that are too large to map into newclass.

Examples

Convert an int8 value to uint8:

a = int8(5);
b = cast(a,'uint8');
class(b)

MATLAB returns:

ans =
uint8

See Also

class | typecast

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