concatenating strings

Hi all, I have two cell arrays containing dates and times e.g. D{1}='11/06/29' '11/06/30' etc

D{2}='10:36' '10:35' etc My aim is to concatenate the two strings with a space in between, i.e. to end up with '11/06/29 10:36' '11/06/30 10:35' etc Can someone help please? I have not managed to solve this, although it seems trivial. Many thanks, Christina

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Christina,

not too nice but working:

D{1}={'11/06/29' '11/06/30'};
D{2}={'10:36' '10:35'};
x = strcat(D{1}, '$', D{2});
x = strrep(x, '$', ' ');

Titus

Answer 2

[Jan]

The type and dimensions of the input is not clear:

 "D{1}='11/06/29' '11/06/30'"

Does D{1} contain a cell string?! Then D would be a nested cell. Or is D a {n x 2} cell string? It is hard to create a meaningful answer, if the data structure is not defined exactly...

Usually STRCAT is the best choice to concatenate cell strings. Let me guess:

D1 = {'11/06/29', '11/06/30'}
D2 = {'10:36' '10:35'}
R = strcat(D1, {' '}, D2);

It is necessary to use a cell string for the space, because for strange historical reasons STRCAT removes marginal spaces of processed cell strings.

If speed matters, this function is 10 times faster, but needs to be compiled: FEX: CStrCatStr.

[Christina]

sorry, my bad. The structure looked different in the preview but I failed to check. Thanks for the answer, anyway.