How to convert number to string vector

I have three vectors representing years, months, and days:

a = [2014;2014];
b = [10;11];
c = [25; 24];

and at the very least I want to put them in a string vector such as:

Vector = ['2014_10_25' ; '2014_11_24']

I am unsure how to do this conversion. The best case would be an output of:

Vector = ['2014_Oct_25' ; '2014_Nov_24']

but my goal is to convert the year, month, and day numerical vectors into one string vector.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

a = [2014;2014];
b = [10;11];
c = [25; 24];
x=[a b c zeros(numel(a),3) ]
out=datestr(x,'yyyy_mmm_dd')

Answer 2

[dpb]

Trivial...

>> [a,b,c]
ans =
      2014          10          25
      2014          11          24
>> datestr(datenum(a,b,c))  % default format
ans =
25-Oct-2014
24-Nov-2014
>> datestr(datenum(a,b,c),'yyyy-mmm-dd')  % your requested format
ans =
2014-Oct-25
2014-Nov-24
>>

See

doc datenum % and friends for details

As hint on how to find these things while learning Matlab,

>> lookfor date  % returns in part
collectdata                    - Given cell array of nx3 per cell of date, stockID, return as
doc_datacursormode             - Plots graph and sets up a custom data tip update function
myadddate                      - ADDDATE - version vectorized...
sunny                          - Given cell array of nx3 per cell of date, stockID, return as
dateTickPicker                 - Returns ticks for "best" scale.
datetickstr                    - Returns the date string associated with the values input. Any values of
invalidateaxis                 - Invalidate an axis to recompute limits and ticks
convertSpreadsheetDates        - Convert cells in a spreadsheet to MATLAB datenum format
...
addtodate                      - Add a quantity to a date field.
clock                          - Current date and time as date vector.
date                           - Current date as date string.
datenum                        - Serial date number.
datestr                        - String representation of date.
datetick                       - Date formatted tick labels.
datevec                        - Date components.
now                            - Current date and time as date number.
...

[Danny]

Thank you for the very helpful answer