Combining text with non-zero elements of a 2D array
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I have a numerical array that is "almost" diagonal, so it looks like this: 
N=[10 0 0 0 0; 0 20 0 0 0; 10 0 20 0 0; 0 0 0 10 0; 0 0 0 0 30]
I also have a cell array with the same number of rows, which looks like this:
C={'ABC';'DEF';'GHI';'JKL';'MNO'}
I would like to create a row array that takes the non-zero values of N, and combines them with the text in C to give an output like this:
CN={'ABC10_GHI10' 'DEF20' 'GHI10' 'JKL10' 'MNO30'}
In other words, it must combine all the non-zero values of each column with text of respective indices.  
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  Stephen23
      
      
 on 16 Sep 2024
        Without an intermediate matrix:
N = [10,0,0,0,0;,0,20,0,0,0;,10,0,20,0,0;,0,0,0,10,0;,0,0,0,0,30]
C = {'ABC';'DEF';'GHI';'JKL';'MNO'}
[X,Y,V] = find(N);
F = @(x)cellstr(join(""+C(X(x))+V(x),'_'));
Z = 1:numel(X);
CN = accumarray(Y,Z(:),[],F)
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  Voss
      
      
 on 16 Sep 2024
        
      Edited: Voss
      
      
 on 16 Sep 2024
  
      Here's one way:
N=[10 0 0 0 0; 0 20 0 0 0; 10 0 20 0 0; 0 0 0 10 0; 0 0 0 0 30]
C={'ABC';'DEF';'GHI';'JKL';'MNO'}
n_col = size(N,2);
tmp = compose('%s%d',string(C),N)
CN = cell(1,n_col);
idx = N ~= 0;
for ii = 1:n_col
    CN{ii} = strjoin(tmp(idx(:,ii),ii),'_');
end
disp(CN)
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  Voss
      
      
 on 16 Sep 2024
        
      Edited: Voss
      
      
 on 16 Sep 2024
  
      Here's one way:
N=[10 0 0 0 0; 0 20 0 0 0; 10 0 20 0 0; 0 0 0 10 0; 0 0 0 0 30]
C={'ABC';'DEF';'GHI';'JKL';'MNO'}
n_col = size(N,2);
tmp = compose("%s%d",string(C),N)
CN = strings(1,n_col);
idx = N ~= 0;
for ii = 1:n_col
    CN(ii) = join(tmp(idx(:,ii),ii),'_');
end
disp(CN)
CN = cellstr(CN)
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