How does one produce an array of strings automatically?
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I wish to produce an array/vector of strings to use as InputNames and OutputNames on a dynamical system model in something like the following manner (note that the below doesn't work, but illustrates what I'm looking for):
n = 5;
stringVector = {'v' num2str(n)};
in order to produce a vector of strings as such:
stringVector = {'v1', 'v2', 'v3', 'v4', 'v5'}
How can this be done?
Thanks, Olie
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Mischa Kim
on 14 Apr 2014
Edited: Mischa Kim
on 14 Apr 2014
Oliver, you could do
n = 5;
for ii = 1:n
stringVector{ii} = strcat('v',int2str(ii));
end
or simply
stringVector = strcat({'v'},int2str((1:5)'));
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Jan
on 14 Apr 2014
There is an undocumented but extremely efficient function for this job:
stringVector = sprintfc('v%d', 1:5)
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Sean de Wolski
on 16 Apr 2014
And a documented one liner:
x = strcat('v',cellstr(num2str((1:5).')))
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