Converting String to Character,

Hi, I got an error saying that my code below for the Hit, Miss, Total Miss, and Bullseye is currently a string and needs to be "of data type char" and I was wondering if someone could help

function[zone,Points]=RQ18_18(X,Y)
distance=sqrt(X^2 + Y^2);
Bluedistance=3;
Greendistance=2;
Reddistance=1;
if( distance<=Reddistance)
Points=4;
zone="Bullseye";
elseif(distance>Reddistance && distance<=Greendistance)
Points=2;
zone="Close";
elseif(distance>Greendistance &&distance<=Bluedistance)
Points=1;
zone="Hit";
elseif((X>=4 && X<=-4) && (Y>=-4 && Y<=-4))
Points=0;
zone="Miss";
else
Points=-1;
zone="Total Miss";
end
end

[Jeff Baker]

Check out https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/characters-and-strings.html and the difference between single and double quotes.

[Sean St Cyr]

Thank you, I got it fixed

[dpb]

Just a stylistic comment -- it helps ALOT to indent code constructs in being able to read and debug code...sure, the machine doesn't care, but it doesn't do the hard work of writing the code.

Answer 1

[Saurabh]

What you can do is to convert the string to char using char() function.

for example:

Bullseye  = char(Bullseye );

let me know if this works or not.