Replace zeros with text

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Dylan Mecca 2018-2-21

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编辑： Stephen23 2018-2-22

How could somebody replace zeros in a matrix or vector with a word?

For example, I'm trying to make a column n rows long that says the word 'hello'. How could I do that?

a = zeros(10,1)
a(a==0) = 'hello'

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Dylan Mecca 2018-2-22

I want to create a column vector of n amount of zeros. Then, replace those zeros with the word, 'hello'. I don't know how much simpler to ask that question. Replace zeros with 'hello'. If that isn't possible using a numeric array, is there another way?

The end goal is to make a column vector, n rows long, that says the word 'hello'. I will later then compare that vector to others for true/false outputs... but that is not applicable in this case. Is there a way to create a cell array that is n rows long that contains 'hello' in each row?

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@Dylan: The question might sound easy if you are not familiar with programming. For an experiences programmer zeros and strings are such completely different things, that it is hard to imagine, why you want to do this. A metaphor: Imagine you have a hand full of eggs and want to replace the eggs by sunsets. Hm.

Numbers (as zeros) are numbers and you cannot "replace" them by strings. Note that a single 0 inside a vector is one element of type double, while 'hello' is a vector of 5 elements of type char.

 I will later then compare that vector to others for
 true/false outputs

This sounds even more strange.

 Is there a way to create a cell array that is n rows long
 that contains 'hello' in each row?

Yes, this is clear. See Stephen's answer.

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"Is there a way to create a cell array that is n rows long that contains 'hello' in each row?"

repmat({'hello'},n,1)

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Or alternatively:

c    = cell(n, 1);
c(:) = {'hello'}

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Or

C = {'hello'};
D = C(ones(n,1))

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James Tursa 2018-2-21

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"... I'm trying to make a column n rows long that says the word 'hello' ..."

a = ('hello')';

The above results in a column vector that says 'hello'. Not sure what your real goal is.

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Dylan Mecca 2018-2-21

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when using n = 11, I get:

a = 
h
e
l
l
o
h
e
l
l
o
h

This doesn't solve how to make 'hello' repeat for n amount of rows, nor address how to replace zeros.

James Tursa 2018-2-21

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When you used n=11 above, I count a column of 11 rows in the output exactly as your wording requested. If you mean 11 rows of 'hello' stacked vertically, then just

a = repmat('hello',11,1);

Also, replacing char class elements into a double class variable will turn the char values into double values (the ASCII number of the character). It is not clear to me what you want for an output in this case. You can't have char class data stored inside a double class matrix. E.g.,

>> a = zeros(1,10)
a =
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
>> a(1:5) = 'hello'
a =
   104   101   108   108   111     0     0     0     0     0

The char data simply gets converted to a double value ASCII equivalent.

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