For historical reasons, string representation in Matlab data structures is something of a mess. The situation is looking up now, with the introduction of the string class and its double-quoted string literals in R2017a, but it’s still messy because of back-compatibility baggage. This post lays out the situation as I see it. The purpose of this post isn’t to complain or rag on MathWorks; it’s to share what I understand of the sitation with other people so they can be more effective Matlab p