How do I get a cell array or character array with more than one row into VB?

How do I get a cell array or character array with more than one row into VB?

The MATLAB reference I added to my project had GetCharArray but this doesn't seem to work. I get error messages saying 'more than one row' or 'type mismatch' if I do not have just 1 row.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The GetCharArray Function returns a single dimension string, thus it will not be able to return a multi-dimensional string array.

The workaround is to:

1. create two strings

2. concatenate them with a new line appended in between.

Note: Make sure your text box property is set to MULTILINE.

Below is a code snippet illustrating this:

Matlab.Execute ("a = ['Hello'; 'World']")

'Break it up into two pices

Matlab.Execute ("a1 = a(1,:)")

Matlab.Execute ("a2 = a(2,:)")

'Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) defines the newline character

Text1.Text = Matlab.GetCharArray("a1", "base") & Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) &

Matlab.GetCharArray("a2", "base")