cell array to char array?

Hello Sir!

How to convert a cell array to char array? I want to read 2 strings from a .txt file and want them in char type. if I do as follow those are cell type. The file contains 2 strings in 1st line, separated by a single space.

[a,b] = textread('inp.txt','%s%s',1)

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

char(a) and char(b)

[raktim banerjee]

it works for a string other than numeric values. what to do for a string containing numeric or alpha-numeric value for converting it in char type?

[Oleg Komarov]

>> a = {'9a','abc'}

a =

'9a' 'abc'

>> char(a)

ans =

9a

abc

[raktim banerjee]

Tank you sir!

[Hary]

alternatively,

>> a = {'9a','abc'}

a =

1×2 cell array

{'9a'} {'abc'}

>> a{1}

ans =

'9a'

Answer 2

[piyari sadia]

letters_lut ='AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz1234567890'; HOW (letters_lut) is used to convert the cell array to a character?

[Walter Roberson]

Please expand on your question. Conversion from cell array to character string is a matter of de-referencing each of the cell array entries to get the already-contained character string, and building up rows of a char array, with the rows padded (with blanks) to the length of the longest string. There is no look-up table involved in the process.