MATLAB - Convert Number Character array to Number Integer array/matrix?

*My problem*: Hi, I have an array *A of type char*, that reads like this:

    196800271010
    902589451069
    052068830384
    901778191098

I want to turn A into a numerical matrix that will separate the characters into individual number integers like so

    [1 9 6 8 0 0 2 7 1 0 1 0
     9 0 2 5 8 9 4 5 1 0 6 9
     0 5 2 0 6 8 8 3 0 3 8 4
     9 0 1 7 7 8 1 9 1 0 9 8]

What is the best way for this? *I've tried* str2num(A), but that treats the characters as one whole number per line (Ie first line is 1.9680) I've also tried this for loop

    for i = 1:5 %the number of rows in the char array
    s = num2str(A(i,:));
    for t = length(s):-1:1
        result(t) = str2num(s(t));

    end

But this just returns the last line of the array, I want to have all of them. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

result = A - '0';

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

If A is a cell array

char(A)-'0'

[Walter Roberson]

True. But we are given that A is of type char.

Answer 2

[Mukesh Singla]

your code is correct, just one thing you are need to look is that you need to store all the element in the array,

for i = 1:5 
    s = num2str(A(i,:));
    for t = length(s):-1:1
        result(i,t) = str2num(s(t));

try this you will get your result

[Walter Roberson]

Needs a couple of end statements.

What is the purpose of the num2str(A(i,:)) step when A is already a character array? num2str() applied to a character vector returns the same vector?