Programming and Data Types

Character Arrays (Strings)

This chapter covers MATLAB support for string data. It describes the two ways that MATLAB represents strings, and also describes the operations that you can perform on string data. It covers the following topics:


Function Summary	Functions commonly used with character arrays
Character Arrays	Storing a single string, or two or more strings of equal length
Cell Arrays of Strings	Storing two or more strings of unequal length
String Comparisons	String comparison functions and operators
Searching and Replacing	Searching for and replacing characters within a string
Regular Expressions	Searching and replacing characters using regular expressions
Numeric/String Conversion	Converting numeric values to character strings

Creating Timer Callback Functions Function Summary