String to Array Matrix (Help)
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I have some problems to covert string into array matrix. For example : I have a matrix
A=[1 2 3 4 5; 6 7 8 9 10; 11 12 13 14 15]
And then, i have an input string/char as change array matrix such that y='1:2:3,1:4'. If we calculate manual, then the results are a matrix x=[1 2 3 4;11 12 13 14]. However, there are some problems when i want to insert string y='1:2:3,1:4' as array matrix. For example : I have a variable x, and then i will calculate matrix contents such as x=A(y). (There is some error). I was trying with cellstr, etc. It didn't work. Can you help me ? I will apply this concept into my gui matlab. Thank you for your help.
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Guillaume
on 16 Mar 2015
Note: input is a built-in function of matlab so avoid using that as a variable name. It's not a good variable name anyway as it does not tell you anything about the purpose of the variable (they're all either input, output or temporaries).
I'm not sure the way you're designing this is a good idea in the first place, but a way to parse and use your string would be:
A = [1 2 3 4 5; 6 7 8 9 10; 11 12 13 14 15];
Aindexstr = '1:2:3, 1:4';
Aindex = cellfun(@str2num, strsplit(Aindexstr, ','), 'UniformOutput', false);
newA = A(Aindex{:})
This uses expansion of cell arrays into comma separated list to index A using the cell array Aindex.
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