Problem 649. Return the first and last character of a string

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Enrico Michielan on 10 Jan 2021 at 13:01

Why this solution isn't correct? I tried this code on Matlab for pc and it's run correctly, but here on Matlab Cody's platform, it doesn't run. Someone can help me? Thanks

goc3 on 11 Jan 2021 at 11:40

Look at the errors—your function never defines the output variable y.

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Cory Cunningham on 11 Dec 2020

Thank you for the help

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Piero Cimule on 19 Jun 2020

y = [x(1),x(end)];

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Sankari Narne on 18 Feb 2020

#strcat(x(1),x(length(x)));
very easy like it!

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Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019

Well, I guess my understanding that string is defined using (" " , i.e. double quotations) is incorrect. I thought class string was formally distinguished from char (defined using ' ', i.e. single quotes). I should have looked at the test-suite.

Mario Malic on 13 Mar 2020

Yes, the title should be "Return the first and last character of a char array"

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Adobe Fl on 22 Oct 2019

Nice!

Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019

Only need:
out = x([1 end])
This is legal even if length(x) == 1, because in that case, x(1) == x(end)

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vahid simintan on 10 Nov 2015

that is it

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