Matlab: Prepend string to a cell array of strings

Question

I want to prepend a string in a cell array of strings. For example, if I've:

q = {'1', '2'};
p = '3';

I want to do something like that

a = prepend(q, p);
a =
   '3'  '1'  '2'

How can I prepend a string?

Sardar Usama · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-29 09:29:39Z

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You have a cell array of char, not strings.
string and char mean different things since the release of R2016b. You can prepend a char array to a cell array in the same way how cell arrays are combined.

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In the similar way, you can also combine a cell array of char with a string array or a simple char array with a string array which will result in a string array though. The datatype can be changed later to a cell array of char if required using cellstr.

edited Aug 29, 2017 at 9:29

answered Aug 29, 2017 at 8:57

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Jepessen Over a year ago

Thanks for the reply. Actually I'm using the R2014a release, so I don't have strings yet...

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