MATLAB: Matlab string size to asterisks

Question

Hi there, I am taking an introduction to MATLAB course and I have been having trouble completing this task: "Write a program to input 2 strings from the user and to print out (i) the concatenation of the two strings with a space between them, (ii) a line of asterisks the same length as the concatenated strings, and (iii) the reversed concatenation. [Hint: use disp and char] and use the work done in Q2(a) above.

 For example: 
 Enter string 1: Mark 
 Enter string 2: Huckvale 
 Mark Huckvale 
 ************* 
 elavkcuH kraM "

I can do part (i), however when it comes to (ii) and (iii) I can't seem to get it. The hint says use char.. but I don't really know how to use it to display asterisks or reverse the string. Any guidance on this would be extremely helpful.

Thanks, Laura

Answer 1

Here's a hint:

x = 'Friday Rocks'
char(42+zeros(size(x)))

I found the 42 by running:

int8('*')

To reverse a string, look at fliplr.

doc fliplr