MATLAB: Help with splitting a string into a character array.

Question

Let's say I have a string s='Potato'.

How would I split that up into an array so that it looks like t='P, o, t, a, t, o'?

I'm currently doing it like this:

%%Choose word
word=datasample(wordbank,1)
 %identify length of word
 wordlength=strlength(word)
 sol = split(word,"")

The only problem with doing it this way is that there are two blank spots and the beginning and end of the character array. It looks like this when outputted:

 "" "P" "o" "t" "a" "t" "o" ""

How can I split it so that the blank values at the beginning and end aren't there?

Answer 1

You could use

s = 'Potato';
t = num2cell(s) 
t =
1×6 cell array
  {'P'}    {'o'}    {'t'}    {'a'}    {'t'}    {'o'}