Problem 649. Return the first and last character of a string

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Piero Cimule on 19 Jun 2020

y = [x(1),x(end)];

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Sankari Narne on 18 Feb 2020

#strcat(x(1),x(length(x)));
very easy like it!

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Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019

Well, I guess my understanding that string is defined using (" " , i.e. double quotations) is incorrect. I thought class string was formally distinguished from char (defined using ' ', i.e. single quotes). I should have looked at the test-suite.

Mario Malic on 13 Mar 2020

Yes, the title should be "Return the first and last character of a char array"

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Adobe Fl on 22 Oct 2019

Nice!

Raymond MacNeil on 18 Nov 2019

Only need:
out = x([1 end])
This is legal even if length(x) == 1, because in that case, x(1) == x(end)

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vahid simintan on 10 Nov 2015

that is it

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