How to initialize a cell array with increasing numbers

Question

How could I initialize a cell array with increasing numbers? For a simple array I can do as follow :

A = [1:0.0001:1.1]

What would be the equivalent for a cell array? How could I obtain:

A = {'1', '1.0001', '1.0002', '1.0003', '1.0004', ...}

Edit:

Here what I have tried so far:

cellfun(@(x) num2str(str2double(x)+0.0001), repmat({'1'},1,21), 'UniformOutput', false)

However, this gives:

{'1.0001', '1.0001', '1.0001',...}

Answer 1

There is a cool undocumented function called sprintfc that prints to cell arrays:

An = 1:0.0001:1.1;
As = sprintfc('%g',An)

Example:

>> A = sprintfc('%g',0:0.2:1)
A = 
    '0'    '0.2'    '0.4'    '0.6'    '0.8'    '1'
>> which sprintfc
built-in (undocumented)

sprintfc was recently highlighted on undocumentedmatlab.com. Yet another great find by Yair Altman. Some other possibilities follow.

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For numerical values, use num2cell:

A = num2cell(An)

For string representations:

A = strsplit(num2str(An))

You could also use cellfun:

A = cellfun(@num2str,num2cell(An),'uni',0)

Or just arrayfun, which is actually simpler:

A = arrayfun(@num2str,An,'uni',false)