How can I make matlab stop recognizing string as char?

I assigned

wavetype = 'sawtooth';

and matlab keeps telling me wavetype is a 1X8 char which is preventing me from using the strcomp() function later when I

if strcomp(wavetype,'sawtooth')

How can I make sure the variable is considered a string?

[Jan]

Whenever you post a problem in a forum, add the complete error message. Currently we can only guess, what "strcomp" could be and what error message you exactly get.

"Strings" are CHAR vectors in Matlab, therefore it is unlikely that you have to interprete them as anything else.

Answer 1

[Sven]

I think the issue here is just a typo:

"strcomp" is not a MATLAB function. I think you mean "strcmp".

wavetype = 'sawtooth';
if strcmp(wavetype,'sawtooth')
  disp('We got a sawtooth!')
else
  disp('We got something else...')
end

Did that solve it for you Andres?