use the if-else loop considering a variable 'char' in the workspace

Hi! I have an 'out' variable in the workspace that can be a number or a char. How can I use the if-else loop considering this variation of the variable 'out'?

For example:

out = 'analysis';  % or number

if out   % 'out' is char
    text = out;
else  % 'out' is number
    % ....
end

Answer 1

[Dyuman Joshi]

You can use ischar and isnumeric -

out = 'analysis';  % or number

if ischar(out)
    disp('character')
elseif isnumeric(out)
    disp('numeric data')
else
    disp('Unknown data')
end

character

Note that if, elseif, else is not a loop, but a group of conditional statements/blocks.