Programming and Data Types

Array/String Conversion

The MATLAB function mat2str changes an array to a string that MATLAB can evaluate. This string is useful input for a function such as eval, which evaluates input strings just as if they were typed at the MATLAB command line.

Create a 2-by-3 array A.

A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6]

A =

    1     2     3
    4     5     6

mat2str returns a string that contains the text you would enter to create A at the command line.

B = mat2str(A)

B =

[1 2 3; 4 5 6]

String/Numeric Conversion

Multidimensional Arrays