How can i make array with strings ?

I need to make a array with strings. For exmaple I have tried this.

for i =1:100
for j =1:200
 D(i,j) = sprintf('z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;',i,j,normrnd(0,1));
end
end

I am getting error in assignment. Provide solution to error or Alternate way.

Thaks.

[Rik]

What do you want to with this? It looks like you are preparing something with eval, which I would strongly discourage.

Also, do you want the result to be of the string class or the char class?

[Stephen23]

This looks like the start of some slow, complex, obfscuated, buggy code:

'z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;'

What are you planning on doing with that character vector? Why not just assign that value directly?:

z_prop(i,j,hbsigmci) = normrnd(0,1);

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

Note that strictly speaking you're not creating strings but char vectors. You may actually prefer generating strings which are easier to work with. If you want string simply replace the single quotes ' by double quotes " and you'll find that your code work exactly as you expected. However, you should preallocate the output array before the loop for efficiency:

D = strings(100, 200);  %preallocate array
for j = 1:200
    for i = 1:100
        D(i, j) = sprintf("z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;",i,j,normrnd(0,1));
    end
end

If you want to work with char vectors, you need to store them in a cell array, not a matrix:

D = cell(100, 200);
for j = 1:200
    for i = 1:100
        D{i, j} = sprintf('z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;',i,j,normrnd(0,1));
    end
end

Note: another way to generate your output, which doesn't involve a loop

[r, c] = ndgrid(1:100, 1:200);
hbsigmci = normrnd(0, 1, size(r));
%for strings:
Dstring = reshape(compose("z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;", r(:), c(:), hbsigmci(:)), size(r));
%for char vectors
Dchar = reshape(compose('z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;', r(:), c(:), hbsigmci(:)), size(r));

Answer 2

[Bhaskar R]

In string related operations use cell array data type as

D = cell(100, 200);
for i =1:100
    for j =1:200
        D{i, j} = sprintf('z_prop(%d,%d,hbsigmci)=%.4f;',i,j,normrnd(0,1));
    end
end