how to convert decimal to binary???

I want to convert the elements of multi dimensional matrix from decimal format to binary format and store it in the same multi-dimensional matrix. Using de2bi() function i get a 'nx1' matrix. Is there any other way of doing this conversion and get the binary values in the same matrix of same dimension as the inputted decimal matrix.

eg: a[1,2,3,4;5,6,7,8;9,10,11,12;13,14,15,16]

to

a[00001,00010,00011,00100;00101,00110,00111,01000;01001,01010,01011,01100;01101,01110,01111,10000]

Please help :) Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

[Jan]

The converion to "binary" create strings. Strings are vectors of type char. You cannot store vectors in arrays in the same way as scalars. Do you want to create a cell string?