Why the exact same command (xlswrite) work with some varible but not others of the same kind?

As in title, when using

xlswrite('Max.xls',[Max1; Max2; Max3; Max4; Max5; Max6; Max7; Max8; Max9; Max10])

everything's fine. a Max.xls is generated. BUT, when using

xlswrite('min.xls',[min1; min2; min3; min4; min5; min6; min7; min8; min9; min10])

an "Error using vertcat CAT arguments dimensions are not consistent." pops up..

Max1-10 and min1-10 are both texts.

Can anyone explain this? Doesn't really make sense to me..

Thank you !

[Image Analyst]

It has nothing to do with xlswrite, but has to do with the concatenation with the brackets.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Character arrays have to be rectangular. So you can't do this ['123', '12345678']. If your texts are different sizes, then you need a cell array. You need a cell array anyway, otherwise xlswrite will put one only character into each Excel cell, instead of putting the whole string into a single cell. So try this:

ca = {min1; min2; min3; min4; min5; min6; min7; min8; min9; min10};
xlswrite('min.xls', ca);

[Yang]

Thank you!

Answer 2

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

because your min strings are not same length

 char(min1,min2,min3)

or

   strvcat(min1,min2,min3)

[Yang]

Thank you!