Char function for a cell array

Hello! I have a problem with converting an cell array to a char array and then from vertical to horizontal.

%So the results look like:   
                                       MGFS
                                       AEIL
                                       TAVO
                                       EREW
 %instead :                            MATE   GEAR  FIVE SLOW  

Can not find out where is my mistake. For example:

Name = [  MATE    %this is my array of cell type. It is vertically
           GEAR    
           FIVE
           SLOW
           ]
 Name_new = (Name).'    %trying to transpose from vertical into a horizontal array, the type of the data is still cell
 Names = char(Name_new)
 
 % and the results are :             
                                       MGFS 
                                       AEIL
                                       TAVO
                                       EREW
  %instead : MATE GEAR FIVE SLOW       

I have tryied to transpose Name array without coma after it, I mean :

Name_new = (Name)' 

but the results are the same ....

[Steven Lord]

Where do the X in the first row and the T in the second row come from?

[John Rebbner]

Hi, Steven, It is my technical mistake, I have forgotten to delete X and T!

Please, just ignore them!

[Stephen23]

Original question, with answers:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/434937-how-to-transpose-a-cell-array-converted-into-a-character-arrray

Answer 1

[dpb]

The cell array would be

>> Name = {'MATE'; 'GEAR'; 'FIVE'; 'SLOW'}    % define column cellstr array
Name =
  4×1 cell array
    {'MATE'}
    {'GEAR'}
    {'FIVE'}
    {'SLOW'}
>> Name=Name.'                                % transpose to row
Name =
  1×4 cell array
    {'MATE'}    {'GEAR'}    {'FIVE'}    {'SLOW'}
>> Name=string(Name)                         % use the new strings class instead...
Name = 
  1×4 string array
    "MATE"    "GEAR"    "FIVE"    "SLOW"
>> Name=Name.'                               % it also transposes as wish
Name = 
  4×1 string array
    "MATE"
    "GEAR"
    "FIVE"
    "SLOW"
>> cName=char(Name)                          % convert to a char() array
cName =
  4×4 char array
    'MATE'
    'GEAR'
    'FIVE'
    'SLOW'
>> cName.'                                   % char() arrays are just a 2D array of bytes...
ans =
  4×4 char array
    'MGFS'
    'AEIL'
    'TAVO'
    'EREW'
>> 

In general, you don't want to even try to handle character data as char() arrays any more--they're a remnant of the earliest releases of Matlab before there were cellstr() and the later string(). As the above shows, they are simply a 2D array of bytes displayed as the character representation instead of numeric but array operations on them are as for any other array; storage is in column-major order so the transpose above turns the strings from rows to columns containing the characters.

To reference any given string out of a char() array requires 2D array syntax:

>> cName(3,:)
ans =
    'FIVE'
>> 

NB: the colon to get all the elements of all the columns for the third row...

Answer 2

[Star Strider]

Try this:

Name = {'MATE' 'GEAR' 'FIVE' 'SLOW'};
Name = reshape(Name, [], 1);
NameC = cell2mat(Name)

producing:

NameC =

  4×4 char array

    'MATE'
    'GEAR'
    'FIVE'
    'SLOW'