is there any function to convert uint to uchar?

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is it possible to convert unsigned integer to unsigned character?

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Amith
Amith on 28 Feb 2023
Edited: Amith on 28 Feb 2023
As per my understanding you wanted to convert unsigned integer to unsigned character .It is possible to convert an unsigned integer to an unsigned character.
You can use unit8 function to convert the integer to an unsigned 8 bit integer, which is equivalent to an unsigned character. This can also be type casted to char using ‘char’ . The below code demonstrated it -
% Define an unsigned integer
x = uint32(123);
% Convert the unsigned integer to an unsigned character
y = uint8(x);
%or
z = char(x);
% Display the results
fprintf('Unsigned integer: %u\n', x);
fprintf('Unsigned character: %c\n', z);
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 28 Feb 2023
Edited: Stephen23 on 28 Feb 2023
Why convert to UINT8? There is absolutely no problem using UINT32 directly:
x = uint32(123);
char(x)
ans = '{'
The MATLAB documentation recommends "if you need to store the numeric values as integers, use unsigned integers having at least 16 bits because MATLAB uses the UTF-16 encoding."

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