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]
  

Numeric/String Conversion

Multidimensional Arrays