MATLAB Programming

2
Data Types
There are many different types of data that you can work with in MATLAB.
You can build matrices and arrays of floating-point and integer data,
characters and strings, logical true and false states, etc. You can also
develop your own data types using MATLAB classes. Two of the MATLAB
data types, structures and cell arrays, provide a way to store dissimilar types
of data in the same array. This chapter describes each of these data types and
how to use them in your MATLAB programming.
Overview of MATLAB Data Types
(p. 2-3)
Numeric Types (p. 2-6)
Logical Types (p. 2-33)
Characters and Strings (p. 2-38)
Dates and Times (p. 2-67)
Structures (p. 2-75)
BriefdescriptionofallMATLAB
data types
Integer and floating-point data
types, complex numbers, NaN,
infinity, and numeric display format
States of true and false, useof
logicals in conditional statements
and logical indexing, logical/numeric
conversion
Characters, strings, cell arrays of
strings, string comparison, search
and replace, character/numeric
conversion
Date strings, serial date numbers,
date vectors, date type conversion,
output display format
C-like structures with named fields,
dynamic field names, adding and
removing fields