Symbolic vector problem in MATLAB

Hi, I'm using the 2016a version and syms doesn't work as a vector.

I try:

syms a [1 4]

but I take "Not a valid variable name" error.

I know I can use sym instead:

sym('a', [1,4])

However, my request is not to use like a (1),I want Matlab to recognize it when I type a1.

[Star Strider]

The only way seems to be to actually type:

syms a1 a2 a3 

I experimented with str2sym to do this, without success.

You can use sprintf or compose to create a vector of symbolic variables to manually copy and paste to your syms call :

a = compose("a%d", 1:5)

however that appears to be the only way to do what you want.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

syms(sym('a', [1 4]))