[Scilab-users] Matrix: mix string and float

[sgougeon at free.fr]

Hello,

>De: "anna78"  4 Mars 2016 14:45:10
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>Is it possible to build a matrix with different element types?

This is called a cell array. 
In your case, since each column is homogeneous, you may as well store the 13 matrices simply in a list: M = list(M1,M2,..,M13).
The most appropriate container -- cell array or list -- depends on which kind of operations you wish to do afterwards with M's components.

HTH
Samuel Gougeon