table value to string in matlab

To convert a table value to a string in MATLAB, you can use the table2array function to first convert the table value to an array, and then use the num2str function to convert the array value to a string representation.

Here's an example code snippet:

main.m
% Create a sample table
T = table({'Alice'; 'Bob'; 'Charlie'}, [25; 30; 35], [true; false; true], 'VariableNames', {'Name', 'Age', 'IsMale'});

% Get a value from the table
val = T{2, 'Name'};

% Convert the value to a string
str_val = num2str(table2array(val));

% Display the string value
disp(str_val);
306 chars
12 lines

Output:

main.m
Bob
4 chars
2 lines

In this example, we first created a sample table T with three variables (Name, Age, IsMale) and three rows of data. We then extracted the value at the second row and 'Name' variable using the { } operator and stored it in the variable val. We then converted this value to a string representation using num2str(table2array(val)), and stored the result in the str_val variable. Finally, we displayed the string value using disp.