how to call a variable in single quotation

I am trying to download files from an ftp server using the command mget.

I am reading the location from an excell file and assign them to a variable. For Example d is a vector containing the locations. d=[ web/dr.txt, web/dr1.txt] in order to download them using mget I need mget(ftp, 'web/dr.txt').

But if I don't use the single quotes it will not get it. I want to call mget(ftp, d(1)) for example. But I want the text assigned to d(1) to appear in mget with single quotes. How can I do it?

Can anyone help me please?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

d = {'web/dr.txt' 'web/drt1.txt'};
mget(ftp, d{1})

[Kws]

If I use you or suggestion it gives the following error

??? Undefined function or method 'eq' for input arguments of type 'cell'.

Error in ==> ftp.mget at 32

if any(str == '*')

Answer 2

[Jan]

No, you do not want the quotes to appear in the mget command. The quotes are displayed in the command window, when a cell string is printed. And the quotes are used to define a string in the source code. But the quotes are not part of the string.

Walter's example works, if you consider the curly braces. Using round parenthesis calls mqet with a scalar cell string, but you need the contents of the first element of this cell string:

d = {'web/dr.txt' 'web/drt1.txt'};
class(d(1))   % >> cell
class(d{1})   % >> char

Please read the Getting Started chapters of the documentation. Cell strings are explained there exhaustively.

Answer 3

[Kws]

Thank you both. I found my own way to do it though by converting the variable to character variable. a=char(d) and then call in mget the rows of a

[Jan]

This less efficient than accing the already existing CHAR vector by d{1}.