How to print result in MATLAB?

Dear everyone,

Please help me to solve this problem. I have two arrays like this:

Name=['ABC-8' 'S8' 'EG8'];

Thick=[25 16 12];

I want to create an array like this:

Z=['ABC-825' 'S816' 'EG812'];

Can anyone help me to write a code to make that array?

Thank you so much!

Answer 1

[Aniruddha Phatak]

Robert is right, you must define it as a cell array.

name={'ABC-8' 'S8' 'EG8'};
  thick=[25 16 12];
  for i=1:3
     thin{i} = [ num2str( thick(i) ) ];
     z{i} = strcat(name{i},thin{i});
  end

    disp(z);

Answer 2

[David Sanchez]

define your Name array as a cell, then:

Name={'ABC-8' 'S8' 'EG8'};
Thick=[25 16 12];
Z =cell(numel(Name),1);
for k=1:numel(Name)
    Z{k} = strcat(Name{k},num2str(Thick(k)));
end
>> Z

Z = 

      'ABC-825'
      'S816'
      'EG812'

[Phan]

Thank you so much!

Answer 3

[Guillaume]

Assuming that Name is a cell array, that is

Name = {'ABC-8' 'S8' 'EG8'};

(otherwise as you wrote it, it's just a single string). Then:

Z = cellfun(@(s,n) sprintf('%s%d', s, n), Name, num2cell(Thick), 'UniformOutput', false);

will do it. Note that Z has to be a cell array.

[Phan]

Thank you so much!

Answer 4

[Robert Cumming]

The two answers on here are correct - however if you take the for loop from one and the sprintf from the other you get a faster result:

 Z =cell(1,numel(Name));
 for k=1:numel(Name)
   Z{k} = sprintf ( '%s%d', Name{k}, Thick(k) );
 end

Speed evidence:

 clear
 clc
 Name={'ABC-8' 'S8' 'EG8'};
 Thick=[25 16 12];
 tic
 ZA =cell(1,numel(Name));
 for k=1:numel(Name)
   ZA{k} = strcat(Name{k},num2str(Thick(k)));
 end
 toc
 tic
 ZB = cellfun(@(s,n) sprintf('%s%d', s, n), Name, num2cell(Thick), 'UniformOutput', false);
 toc
 tic
 ZC =cell(1,numel(Name));
 for k=1:numel(Name)
   ZC{k} = sprintf ( '%s%d', Name{k}, Thick(k) );
 end
 toc
 isequal ( ZA, ZB )
 isequal ( ZA, ZC )

Elapsed time is 0.011248 seconds.

Elapsed time is 0.011344 seconds.

Elapsed time is 0.006111 seconds.

[Guillaume]

I'd rather have the clarity of intent of cellfun / arrayfun over writing the loop myself, but at least Phan's got the choice.

[Robert Cumming]

For this type of question you could solve it in many ways....

I just highlight this as many people overlook the simple for loop and the fact that sprintf is the fastest way for handling strings...

[Phan]

Thank you all! You helped so much!