How can I change the data type of a column?

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Julozert
Julozert on 27 May 2020
Commented: Stephen23 on 8 Oct 2021
Hi,
I have a martix with multiple colums and i want to change the data in one column to the data type "char". How can i do that?
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Rik
Rik on 27 May 2020
You can't change the data type of part of a variable. You might get close to what you mean with a cell array.

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Cris LaPierre
Cris LaPierre on 28 May 2020
I suggest turning your matrix into a table. Each table variable can be a different data type. To change, you could simply do the following:
tbl.Var2 = char(tbl.Var2)

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