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Reverse order of characters in strings

Syntax

Description

[newStr](#bu5rtiu-newStr) = reverse([str](#bu5rtiu-str)) reverses the order of the characters in str.

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Examples

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Reverse the strings in a string array and find strings that read the same when reversed.

str = ["airport","control tower","radar","runway"]

str = 1×4 string "airport" "control tower" "radar" "runway"

newStr = 1×4 string "tropria" "rewot lortnoc" "radar" "yawnur"

tf = 1×4 logical array

0 0 1 0

Input Arguments

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Input text, specified as a string array, character vector, or cell array of character vectors.

Output Arguments

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Output text, returned as a string array, a character vector, or a cell array of character vectors. str andnewStr are the same data type.

Extended Capabilities

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Thereverse function fully supports tall arrays. For more information, see Tall Arrays.

Usage notes and limitations:

• str must be a string scalar, a character vector, or a cell array containing not more than one character vector.

Version History

Introduced in R2016b