Use vector of strings for loop vector in matlab

Question

I want to use the following vector as loop vector in matlab:

year = ['JAN';'FEB';'MAR';'APR';'MAY';'JUN';'JUL';'AUG';'SEP';'OCT';'NOV';'DEC'];

The loop is

for i = year
    %Do something
    i
end

Unfortunately i is only one sign, and not three, i.e. I am expecting an output from the above as

JAN
FEB
MAR
APR
.
.
.

but I get only

J
F
M
A
M
.
.
.

How can I change that? Or should I rather use a look-up-table, and loop over a vector from 1 to 12?

Daniel · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-08 12:05:54Z

1

What you got is a 12x3 matrix. To iterate over all rows you have to use matrix indexing:

for month=1:size(year,1)
   year(month,:)
end

answered Mar 8, 2015 at 12:05

Daniel

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2 Comments

Thanks, I thought that that is a 12x1-string-matrix.

There is no string class in matlab, there is only char. A very common error. Details here: mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strings.html