MATLAB Programming

Characters and Strings
name 1x13 26 char
You can see that each character uses 2 bytes of storage internally.
The class and ischar functions show that name is a character array:
class(name)
ans =
char
ischar(name)
ans =
1
You also can join two or more character arrays together to create a new
character array. To do this, use either the string concatenation function,
strcat, or the MATLAB concatenation operator, []. The latter preserves any
trailing spaces found in the input arrays:
name = 'Thomas R. Lee';
title = ' Sr. Developer';
strcat(name,',',title)
ans =
Thomas R. Lee, Sr. Developer
To concatenate strings vertically, use strvcat.
Creating Two-Dimensional Character Arrays
When creating a two-dimensional character array, be sure that each row
has the same length. For example, this line is legal because both input rows
have exactly 13 characters:
name = ['Thomas R. Lee' ; 'Sr. Developer']
name =
Thomas R. Lee
Sr. Developer
When creating character arrays from strings of different lengths, you can pad
the shorter strings with blanks to force rows of equal length:
2-39