HOW to get string variable from vector

hello i've a vector of strings V=['hiver' 'ete' 'automne' 'printemps'] and i wanna get 'hiver' from that vector, i tried V(1) but it gives me the first alphabet 'h'

thank you

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

V=['hiver' 'ete' 'automne' 'printemps']

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V = 'hivereteautomneprintemps';

The [] operator is equivalent to horzcat() in this context, as if you had used

V = horzcat('hiver', 'ete', 'automne', 'printemps');

In MATLAB, strings are vectors of characters, so what you did was similar to

V  = [[1 2 3 4 5] [6 7 8]]

which is the same as

V = horzcat([1 2 3 4 5], [6 7 8])

which is [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]

What you probably wanted to do was

V = {'hiver' 'ete' 'automne' 'printemps'}

{} is used for cell arrays, which are arrays in which each element might be a different size or even a different data type.

V(1) would then be {'hiver'} -- which would still be a cell array. To get the "inside" of the cell array element, use V{1} which would be 'hiver'