how can i put the elements of a character matrix in to another matrix?

i have two arrays, A(57332*1) which is a character type array and consist of two Words:R and P. and B(57332*1) which is array of numbers. when i put A and B in to another matrix C(57332*2), it changes R and P to numbers 82 and 80 ! how can i put R and P as they are in to matrix C?

Answer 1

[TastyPastry]

Matlab will do this because it converts character array A into their respective ASCII values, P = 80, R = 82. In order to store non-homogeneous data types, you need to place the data into a cell array. You can do this by using num2cell() on your character array and your numerical array and concatenating the outputs together.

out = [num2cell(A) num2cell(b)];

[Joseph]

thank you,