I am new to MATLAB and am trying to turn the constitution into binary.
When I run the code below, It takes around a minute to run. Having tested it with the strcat part commented out the code runs fairly fast so I believe the concatenation part of the code is the slower part.
I attempted to pre-allocate an array of chars that is 7 times the length of the constitution file in order to increase the speed of the for loop but this didn't work and produced incorrect results. Below is the code I attempted to use:
file = fopen('constitution.txt');
constitution = fscanf(file,'%c');
Asc = cell(1,length(constitution));
code = char(zeros(1,length(constitution)*7));
for i = 1:length(constitution)
Asc{i} = dec2bin(constitution(i),7);
code = strcat(code,Asc{i});
end
fclose(file);
My question I guess then is how can I correctly allocate the string in order to not have the variable 'code' be resized each iteration and hopefully speed up the code in the process.
