Data Types - MATLAB & Simulink (original) (raw)

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Numeric arrays, characters and strings, tables, structures, and cell arrays; data type conversion

Categories

• Numeric Types
  Integer and floating-point data
• Characters and Strings
  Text in character arrays and string arrays
• Dates and Time
  Arrays of date and time values that can be displayed in different formats
• Categorical Arrays
  Arrays of qualitative data with values from a finite set of discrete, nonnumeric data
• Tables
  Arrays in tabular form whose named columns can have different types
• Timetables
  Time-stamped data in tabular form
• Structures
  Arrays with named fields that can contain data of varying types and sizes
• Cell Arrays
  Arrays that can contain data of varying types and sizes
• Function Handles
  Variables that allow you to invoke a function indirectly
• Dictionaries
  Map data with keys that index values
• Time Series
  Data vectors sampled over time
• Data Type Identification
  Determine data type of a variable
• Data Type Conversion
  Convert between numeric arrays, strings and character arrays, dates and times, cell arrays, structures, or tables