Is it possible to put a character into a matrix?
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I'm trying to do this
m1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7];
m2 = 'A';
m1(3) = m2;
so that m1 will be
[1, 2, A, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Instead of what I actually get.
[1, 2, 65, 4, 5, 6, 7]
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Image Analyst
on 1 Apr 2016
You'd have to use a cell array. I couldn't figure out how to get cell2mat() to work, so I used a for loop:
m1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7];
m2 = 'A';
for k = 1 : length(m1)
m3{k} = m1(k);
end
% m3 = mat2cell(m1, ones(1, 7)) %, ones(1, length(m1)), numel(m1))
celldisp(m3)
% Now replace third element with a character.
m3{3} = m2;
celldisp(m3)
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Star Strider
on 1 Apr 2016
You cannot mix numeric and character values in a numeric array. You can do it with a cell array, but it’s only good for storing the values. You would encounter the same problem if you wanted to calculate with it.
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