Using horzcat for string and regular matrix?

I have two matrices:

 A={'ai' 'ba';'cr' 'dk'} 
 B=[1;2]

how can I put them together as following: C= [1 'ai' 'ba';2 'cr' 'dk']

I know this can be done using horzcat but for regular matrix. Is there a way to do it with two different matrix types like my case?

[Stephen23]

Your output example does not make much sense: MATLAB will implicitly convert the types, and because [] is a concatenation operator you will end up joining all of those strings parts into a single 2x6 matrix. This is unlikely to be what you intended. Perhaps you really want the output to be a simple 2x3 cell array:

C = {1,'ai','ba';2,'cr','dk'}

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

>> A = {'ai','ba';'cr','dk'};
>> B = [1;2];
>> C = [num2cell(B),A]

[AbuYusuf]

Perfect! Thanks Stephen