From: Alex Ter-Sarkissov on
great, thank you!

Walter Roberson <roberson(a)hushmail.com> wrote in message <9Mm5o.41715$OU6.24078(a)newsfe20.iad>...
> Alex Ter-Sarkissov wrote:
> > thanks, but is there a more straightforward command that transforms
> > characters into binary and back, such as dec2bin?
>
> What matlab version are you using?
>
> >> dec2bin('abc',8)
> ans =
> 01100001
> 01100010
> 01100011