Split a matrix into a sum of other matrices

Hello,

I Have a big matrix (100x100) comprised of both numerical and symbolic variables. Is there any way I can split the matrix above into a sum of matrices of the same size?

example: A=[2*x1, 5*x2; 4*x3, x4]

A= x1*[2, 0; 0 0] + x2*[0, 5; 0 0] + x3*[0, 0; 4 0] + x4*[0, 0; 0 1]

I would hate to do this by hand, so any help to simplify my problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You

Answer 1

[Matt Kindig]

How is your matrix currently defined? Are you really combining both numeric elements (e.g. doubles) and symbolic elements (created by sym() function) together?

Answer 2

[radu]

short answer: Yes, I have both numerical values(double) and symbols (created with symbolic math toolbox).

At first the matrix was comprised just of symbols (created with syms() ) but in order to simplify the matrix I added values for the constant ones. The rest are time dependent.

The idea is that i do not know the exact values of the symbolic variables, but I know their boundaries.