How do you transform a vector of numbers into a cell of strings?

I have a vector of numbers:

A = [1 2 3 4 5]';

I want to change it to a cell of strings, such as the one I've declared here:

B = cell(5,1); B{1} = '1'; B{2} = '2'; B{3} = '3'; B{4} = '4'; B{5} = '5';

How can I change A into B without using a for loop?

Answer 1

[Jos (10584)]

A = [1:5].' 
B = arrayfun(@(x) num2str(x),A,'un',0)

[Titus Edelhofer]

You are right. Working with arrayfun directly is much better ;-).

[Chang hsiung]

great

Answer 2

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi,

one possibility:

Acell = num2cell(A);
B = cellfun(@(x) sprintf('%g', x), Acell, 'UniformOutput', false);

Titus