CHAR CHAR Convert to character array or string Usage The char function can be used to convert an array into a string. It has several forms. The first form is y = char(x) where x is a numeric array containing character codes. FreeMat does not currently support Unicode, so the character codes must be in the range of [0,255]. The output is a string of the same size as x. A second form is y = char(c) where c is a cell array of strings, creates a matrix string where each row contains a string from the corresponding cell array. The third form is y = char(s1, s2, s3, ...) where si are a character arrays. The result is a matrix string where each row contains a string from the corresponding argument.