Simple Question Assigning to Strings [ASCII Problem]

Hi, whenever I run my code it assigns the ascii value to odd instead of the string value that I need. What's the best way to fix this?

    str=['The value of the odd index number is ',num2str(i)];
    len=length(str);
    odd(rows,1:len)=str;
    rows=rows+1;

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

How was "odd" initialized? If you initialized it to [] then instead initialize it to '' (the empty string)

[Buck]

Thanks! It was initialized as 0. Good to know for the future.