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Group:	String Manipulation
See also:	atof string substr char

Function:		convert
Description:		converts numbers to strings depending on the ASCII table and vice versa in strings.

Usage:	`z = convert(x)`
Input:
	`x`	n x p matrix of numerical elements or string of length m which should be ; converted
Output:
	`z`	string of length n*p representing the converted n x p matrix or ; m x 1 vector representing the converted string in ASCII code

Note:

!! The matrix should contain either textual or numerical elements ; but note that you cannot mix them !!

Example:

x = "hello world !" y = convert(x) y convert(y)

Result:

Contents of y

[ 1,]      104
[ 2,]      101
[ 3,]      108
[ 4,]      108
[ 5,]      111
[ 6,]       32
[ 7,]      119
[ 8,]      111
[ 9,]      114
[10,]      108
[11,]      100
[12,]       32
[13,]       33
[14,]        0

Contents of convert

[1,] "hello world !"