How to convert all elements of a cell array to one string matrix.

Imagine this Example:

 A = {'Steve';'wonder';'Marcus';'Jacob'};

and i want to convert to

 B =['1-Steve   2-wonder   3-marcus   4-Jacob'];

I'm doing that inside of an loop!

What is the best way to solve that? Thanks

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

A = {'Steve';'wonder';'Marcus';'Jacob'};
B = strjoin(strcat(cellstr(num2str((1:numel(A)).')),'-',A).','  ')

13a or newer for strjoin

[Alan]

Thank you very much...exactly what I wanted!

Answer 2

[Matt J]

A loop is fine for something like that.

[Alan]

The problem is I have hundreds of cells and each one has a different length and I want to put numbers like showed above.

[Matt J]

Your problem is not a problem. Even if you have 5000 cells, it will still be pretty fast.