How to put Hex numbers inside a matrix?

I'm trying to put some Hex numbers inside a matrix. That's my code:

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>> syms matrix

>> matrix(1,1)='c080'

matrix =

c080

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>> matrix(1,2)='a9faee80'

matrix =

[ c080, a9faee80]

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>> matrix(1,3)='1f00'

Here the Error occurs and i don't know why!

I'll be so thankful for any kind of help!

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Error Message:

Error using sym>convertExpression (line 2246) Conversion to 'sym' returned the MuPAD error: Error: Unexpected 'identifier'. [line 1, col 2]

Error in sym>convertChar (line 2157) s = convertExpression(x);

Error in sym>convertCharWithOption (line 2140) s = convertChar(x);

Error in sym>tomupad (line 1871) S = convertCharWithOption(x,a);

Error in sym (line 104) S.s = tomupad(x,'');

Error in sym/subsasgn (line 1613) if ~isa(B,'sym'), B = sym(B); end

Answer 1

[Jan]

With "syms" the created matrix is symbolic, then it contains symbolic variables. The names of these variables must follow the standard rules of Matlab: less than 64 characters, only letters, numbers and the underscore, but the first character must be a letter. Therefore 'c080' is valid, while '80c0' is not.

What do you want to achieve? Hexadecimal values are stored as strings, so you either need a cell string or perhaps storing the values in the usual decimal format is the most direct solution. But syms seems to be not sufficient for the job.

[Mike]

Thanks Jan, do you have any better idea to put hex numbers inside a matrix?