Matrix of symbolic functions

Question

I would like to define a matrix of symbolic functions (not variables) in Matlab. In the workspace I would like it to be an element of class symfun of size N-by-M (where N<

Answer 1

If you for example want to arrange some anonymous symbolic functions in a vector you can do as following:

z = sym([]);    %declare z as an empty symbolic array

N = 6;          %array size

for i = 1:N
   syms(sprintf('z%d(t)', i)) %declare each element in the array as a single symbolic function

   zz = symfun(sym(sprintf('z%d(t)', i)), t); %declare each element to a symbolic "handle"

   z = [z;zz]; %paste the symbolic "handle" into an array 
end

Be aware that matlab treats z as an 1x1 symbolic function even though it contains more elements. z will still behave like a vector, so you can use it as a normal vector in matrix-vector operations.