MATLAB: How does one produce an array of strings automatically

Question

I wish to produce an array/vector of strings to use as InputNames and OutputNames on a dynamical system model in something like the following manner (note that the below doesn't work, but illustrates what I'm looking for):

n = 5;
stringVector = {'v' num2str(n)};

in order to produce a vector of strings as such:

stringVector = {'v1', 'v2', 'v3', 'v4', 'v5'}

How can this be done?

Thanks, Olie

Answer 1

Oliver, you could do

 n = 5;
 for ii = 1:n
   stringVector{ii} = strcat('v',int2str(ii));
 end

or simply

 stringVector = strcat({'v'},int2str((1:5)'));