strcat() is a very\u00a0handy function in\u00a0MATLAB that allows you to combine strings using a mixture of cellstr() and\u00a0char strings and it will auto-expand the char strings to match the cellstr() if necessary.<\/p>\n
However, by design intention, strcat() removes trailing white spaces by internally applying\u00a0deblank() to all char string<\/strong> inputs. It does NOT deblank cellstr() inputs. So if you want to combine date and time with a space, you have to use {‘ ‘} instead of ‘ ‘:<\/p>\n I find this more confusing than helpful. Including myself and other users, we naturally resort to\u00a0processing line by line using cellfun() or other tricks just to get around the deblank()\u00a0problem without taking a second look at the documentation because<\/p>\ndate = '2000-01-01';\r\ntime = '00:00:01';\r\n>> strcat(date, ' ', time) % The ' ' is ignored\r\nans =\r\n2000-01-0100:00:01\r\n>> strcat(date, {' '}, time) % The ' ' is ignored\r\nans = \r\n '2000-01-01 00:00:01'\r\n>><\/pre>\n\n