Re: convert cell in string

[Andreas Weber]

Am 14.07.2018 um 10:39 schrieb turbofib:
> the reason why I want to convert the data type is to use substr()

Ah, a typical XY problem.

You are asking how to "convert a cell to string" but
what you really want to do is to run "substr" on a cell string.

The solution for this is to use "cellfun":

octave:> cellfun (@(x) substr (x, 1, 2), {"foo", "hello", "world"},
"UniformOutput", false)
ans =
{
  [1,1] = fo
  [1,2] = he
  [1,3] = wo
}

-- Andy