How to convert a 2-D char to string?

i have a 2/5 char array that i want to convert to string. How please?

Answer 1

[Matt J]

Is this what you mean?

      >> C=['abcde';'fghij']

      C =

      abcde
      fghij

      >> reshape(C.',[],1).'

      ans =

      abcdefghij