convert list of strings to char arrays

I have list of directories stored as strings, the variable containing this list is 1xN string. I need to pass them one by one in a loop to the fullfile() function. Unfortunately attempting this, Matlab says that "String input is not supported" for the fullfile function. Well then, how do I convert the strings to char vectors, please?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

One at a time: char

Or all at once: convertstringstochars

[Walter Roberson]

Note: this was needed for R2016b, the release which introduced string objects. If I recall correctly, by R2017a, fullfile() supported using string objects.

By the way, you might not need to loop. If you have a string object, say FileNames, and a folder, say ProjectDir, then

fullnames = fullfile(ProjectDir, cellstr(FileNames));

and now fullnames will be a cell array of character vectors in which the full name of each file has been created.