how to add string matrix to numeric matrix?

example:

from

a=[rice;corn;wheat]

b=[3;4;3]

become

c=[rice 3;corn 4;wheat 3]

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

You could use cell arrays:

a={'rice';'corn';'wheat'};
b={3;4;3};
your_result = cellfun(@(a,b) [a ' ' num2str(b)],a,b,'uniformoutput',false);

[eri]

can you give me explanation about your answer? it work fine with the example matrix above, but not with matrix i currently working on

[Walter Roberson]

It creates a cell array of strings, converting the numbers to strings and putting them at the end of the original strings.

Another way to do the same thing is

your_result = strcat(a, {' '}, num2str(b));

Note that in order for this to work without modification, the two arrays must be column arrays.

[eri]

it did work, but the result is in one column, is it possible to make it two columns, for the example above i have two 3x1 matrix and i want the result to be 3x2 matrix?

[Walter Roberson]

[a, strcat({' '}, num2str(b))]   %output will be cell 3x2 of strings

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

No, numeric arrays can never contain strings.

Cell arrays can contain both strings and numbers, in separate elements.

c = {'rice', 3; 'corn', 4; 'wheat', 3};

[eri]

my question is that i already have a and b, and what should i do to get output like c by operating a and b?

[Walter Roberson]

c = [a, num2cell(b)];    %output will be cell 3x2 first col strings second col numeric

Answer 3

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

a={'rice';'corn';'wheat'}
b=[3;4;3]
c=arrayfun(@(x) [a{x} ' ' num2str(b(x))],1:3,'un',0)