MATLAB: How to Add two strings

additionarrayMATLABstring

Hi, I am trying to add two strings:

A = 'a b c d e'

B = '1 2 3 4 5'

if I want to return a value 'a1b2c3d4e5', how should I set this up?

For a char array of the same length, you can do as follows.

A = 'abcde';
B = '12345';
C = reshape([A;B],1,[]);

newA = [zeros(1, max(0, numel(B)-numel(A))), A]

This will mix them as described in question

C = repmat(' ', 1, 2*numel(A))
C(1:2:end) = A;
C(2:2:end) = [repmat(B, 1, floor(numel(A)/numel(B))) B(1:rem(numel(A), numel(B)))];

For example,

A='IMDOINGATEST'
B='ABCDE'

will produce

C =
  'IAMBDCODIENAGBACTDEESATB'

and

A='IMDO'
B='ABCDE'

will mix to form

C = 
  'IAMBDCOD'  % no repetition of A