How to properly get the popupmenu control value

Hi, I've got an issue with the popupmenu control. I'm try to get the string of the currently selectionned item. As documented here (<http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/creating_guis/f4-998395.html>) I simply code this :

list = get(source, 'String');
val = get(source,'Value');
str = list{val};

but I get this error :

??? Cell contents reference from a non-cell array object.

What am I doing wrong with this simple code ??

Answer 1

[Guillaume A.]

Ok, list is a char array so I needed to convert it to a string list :

listStr = cellstr(list);
str = listStr{val};