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List of decimal numbers to strings in MATLAB

I am trying to create a list of numbers of the form 1.X where X goes from 1 to 65 in order.

1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, ..., 1.62, 1.63, 1.64, 1.65

I have tried the following code but not getting what I need:

v=1.1:0.1:1.65;

I end up with a list from 1.1-1.6 (only 6 numbers). I have played around with the stepping variable, where I changed it from 0.1 to 0.005, still no luck. Once I get the right number list, I would like to convert it to strings.

Solution

  • You can achieve that using string concatenation as

    result = "1." + string((1:65).');

    or more simply, exploiting implicit conversion (thanks to @Wolfie),

    result = "1." + (1:65).';

    This produces an array of strings. If you prefer a cell array of char vectors, just use cellstr to convert:

    result = cellstr("1." + (1:65).');