Convert char to string

I just want to convert a char to str.

The char is in a cell. This is what happens:

>> example = ['hithere',socks]

example = 

      'hithere'    [1x34 char]

>> taken = ['hithere',{socks}]

taken = 

      'hithere'    {1x1 cell}

>> socks

socks = 

      'Shane'

What am I doing wrong and how can I convert the char into a string.

Cheers, Shane

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I'm not sure but I think perhaps what you want is

[{'hithere'} socks]

But possibly what you want is

['hithere ' socks{1}]

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I don't know how socks was 34 characters in the first example and only 5 characters ('Shane') in the next example. Are any of these what you want:

socks = {'Shane'}
example = ['hithere',socks]
example1 = char(example)
example2 = sprintf('%s %s', example{1}, example{2})

[Jan]

I'm still confused about ['string', {'Cell string'}], because it looks like this joins elements of incompatible types. I never had tried it without explicitly converting the string by cellstr() at first.