how to conver a string to a array or matrix
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hi. i have a string. its something like a='[0 1;J 2]' . i want to convert this string to a array. but as u see there is a varible in the string (J) . how can i convert this string to array so that J changes to a varible too.
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Turlough Hughes
on 15 Dec 2019
Does the following help? I generate a 3d matrix here and he different values of J.
% set J to temp value, NaN, and then find index
J=NaN;
data1=eval(a);
[row,col]=find(isnan(data1));
J = 0:0.1:10;
data = repmat(data1,[1 1 length(J)]);
data(row,col,:) = J;
(Assumes you've assigned the variable to J and that J appears only once). I'm guessing the string is coming from some sort of user input? This approach is definitely not ideal. Can you explain more about what you are trying to do overall?
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Bhaskar R
on 15 Dec 2019
J must be initialized scaler values,
J = 2; % assumed(must a single value 1x1 size)
a='[0 1;J 2]';
result = eval(a);
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Turlough Hughes
on 15 Dec 2019
Edited: Turlough Hughes
on 15 Dec 2019
You can make a 3d matrix with the third dimensions being the same size as your range. You could then generate the results as follows:
range=1:10;
J=0;
temp=eval(a);
H=NaN(size(temp,1),size(temp,2),length(range)); % Preallocate space for data
ii=0;
for c=range
ii=ii+1; % Incrementing variable provides index for where to store in H on each iteration
J=c;
H(:,:,ii)=eval(a);
end
Here I have just assigned values to range but you should write some code to update the variable range according to user input, whether it be 1:10 or 0:0.1:10.
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