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Re: Length of strings?
Posted:
Nov 22, 2005 2:12 PM
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"M.L." wrote:
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> Hi NG,
>
> I have a matrix containing a number of strings:
>
> 'name_1'
> 'name2'
> 'name3'
> 'name4'
>
> In a loop, I assign a variable (currentName) to contain string number
> (i) from the array.
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> How do I, in the loop, get the length of the current string contained
> in "currentName"? I have tried everything, but I can only get ans = 1
> ?!
What, specifically does "everything" include? :)
However, Matlab matrices have to be conformable so that each string in
the array will be blank-padded to the length of the longest string.
Something like
str_ary = str2mat('name_1', 'name2');
for i = 1:2
str_len = length(str_ary(i,:))
end
will show 6 for both strings.
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