MATLAB: How to define string scalars for a name(for example, one for the name and one for today’s date) in command windows

Question

Sorry I'm new to matlab.

Is this what I'm supposed to do?

a=['Tim'];

b=['09/13'];

When I tried creating a column vector consisting of a and b, it said the matrices size don't match or something like that. Using the scalars defined above, how can you build and define a column vector of the info?

Answer 1

Use a cell array:

ab = {'Tim' datestr(now,'mm/dd')}

produces:

ab = 
      'Tim'    '09/13'

The command:

ab{:}

produces:

ans =
Tim
ans =
09/13

and:

celldisp(ab)

produces:

ab{1} =
Tim
ab{2} =
09/13

and:

sprintf('%s\n\n', ab{:})

produces:

ans =
Tim
09/13

There may be other possibilities as well, but I can’t think of them just now.