charecter assignment to variable ?

Hi guys,

I am trying to assignment a character to variable but I guess the variables values defined to only integers or variable so;

if ı write a =k;

matlab will recognize that a variable equal k variable or value but ı want to write that a variable equal 'k' character only . I need a funtion that can recognize 'k' character;

sentence = [ {h} {e} {l}........ {o} {r} {l} {d}];

  for n=1:strlenght(sentence)
    for an=1:4
      j=charsentence(n); %% this line has to configure ı guess
      shortset =[shortset j];
     
    end
  end

and also guys ,this is inpedendent question, i need a function that can indicate character or other one ı will use in the if condition if j character use or it is not pass.

thank you.

[dpb]

Explain what you're actually trying to accomplish -- trying to debug uncommented code is tough without knowing what the end objective is particularly.

For example, what is num2cell there for? The user was asked to enter a sentence; why would one expect a general sentence to have a number in it? Is there some other instruction we don't know about?

[Ugur Sahin]

okkay I will edit.

[dpb]

Well, if somebody is going to enter a sentence, then you'll receive something like

sentence='hello world!';

which is a char() string variable.

You address each character in it as in any other array:

>> sentence='hello world!';
>> sentence(1)
ans =
    'h'
>> sentence(end-3:end)
ans =
    'rld!'
>> 

After that, I still don't follow what you're trying to do next...

Give us the input and then an expected output.

[Ugur Sahin]

thank you this is useful.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

To get the character k in variable a, you don't need a function, you simply need to add quotes around it:

a = 'k';

That's way easier than having a function.

There is also an ischar() function that you might want to know about, as well as isnumeric() and others.

[Anicyah]

what if I can't hardcode tho?

[Walter Roberson]

@Anicyah

What would the input be in that situation?