numbers and characters in same vector

I have a column in excel with bank account IDs which are a mix of numbers and characters:

347

345

4567bgr

345&tty

and I want to store them in a column vector, so that I can run aloop through the vector for each ID later. How can I do that?

Answer 1

[John D'Errico]

Store them in a cell array, actually a cell vector.

help cell

Index a cell array using curly braces, instead of parens. Thus {}, not ().

C = {'347'
'345'
'4567bgr'
'345&tty'};

C
C =
  4×1 cell array
    {'347'    }
    {'345'    }
    {'4567bgr'}
    {'345&tty'}
    
C{3}
ans =
    '4567bgr'