Representing a number as a matrix

Hi, I'm looking for how i would be able to seperate a number's digits and to then have these stored as a matrix. So for example if the number was 146, this would then be split such that matrix X = [1,4,6] Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

For a non-negative integral value:

    >> x = 146
    x =
       146
    >> num2str(x) - '0'
    ans =
         1     4     6

Do you also need to somehow process non-integral values, etc?

[Alex]

Thanks. No I don't need to use non-intergrals at the moment, so that should be fine. Thanks again

Answer 2

[Matt Fig]

One approach:

N = arrayfun(@str2num,sprintf('%i',146))

or (along the lines of James' answer)

N = sprintf('%i',146)-'0'