Sum of letters in matlab

Asumming that I have a string = 'abcd'

and i want to sum 'a' and 'b' to be z = 'ab'... i guess a(1)+a(2) won't work...

so how can i do it?

basic thing to do but i'm new in matlab and just started to learn about strings.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

string(1:2)

or

[string(1), string(2)]

or

horzcat(string(1), string(2))