grouping values of 3 columns

hello all, i have one question which is related to grouping columns. for instance:

data=[2 0 2; 0 0 0; 0 2 0; 0 0 12];

what i want are

202 as one row and one col
000 as one row and one col
020 as one row and one col
0012 as one row and one col

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

Not clear what you mean: Do you want a numeric array or a string? If it's numeric, there's no 020 but only 20. If you want string, you'll have to use cells. One possibility is:

cellfun(@(c)sprintf('%d',c),mat2cell(data,ones(size(data,1),1),size(data,2)),'uniform',false)

ans = 

      '202'
      '000'
      '020'
      '0012'

If it's still numeric, you could do this:

sum(bsxfun(@times,data,10.^(size(data,2)-1:-1:0)),2)

ans =

     202
       0
      20
      12