Convert a matrix to { }

Can anyone help me to convert a matrix that is for instance:

 0 1 2
 3 4 5
 6 7 8

called symbols obtained from an image to something that is in the following form symbols= {'0' '1' '2' '3' '4' '5' '6' '7' '8'}.

Answer 1

[Jan]

symbols = [0 1 2; ...
           3 4 5; ...
           6 7 8];
S = sprintf('%g*', symbols.');
S(end) = [];   % Remove trailing *
C = regexp(S, '*', 'split');

Another simpler method:

C = cell(1, numel(symbols));
symbols = symbols.';
for iC = 1:numel(symbols)
  C{iC} = sprintf('%g', symbols(iC));
end

I'm not convinced, that the conversion will really help to solve your problem.

Answer 2

[Jan]

Or:

symbols = [0 1 2;  3 4 5;  6 7 8];
C = num2cell(char('0' + symbols.'))

[Jan]

This fails when any element of the input is outside [0, 9].

Answer 3

[Andrei Bobrov]

A = [0 1 2
 3 4 5
 6 7 8];

cellstr(sprintf('%d',A')')'

other variant:

regexp(num2str(reshape(A.',1,[])),'\d*','match')

[Jan]

This fails when any element of the input is outside [0, 9].

[Andrei Bobrov]

Hi Jan, I agree with you and I suggest another option.