Convert categorical to string

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NAVNEET NAYAN
NAVNEET NAYAN on 2 Oct 2021
Commented: NAVNEET NAYAN on 2 Oct 2021
I have two categorical column vectors of size 872-by-1. I want to calculate the Levenshtein distance between these two. When I am using the command 'editDistance' for this I am getting an error as
"Argument 1 must be a string array, a character vector, or a cell array of character vectors."
After searching the solution for this problem, I thought to convert it to string, but I am not getting a way for this. How can I convert categorical column vector to string? or how can I resolve the error?
In case of any query feel free to comment.
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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 2 Oct 2021
V1 = categorical([1,2,3,2,2,1])
V1 = 1×6 categorical array
1 2 3 2 2 1
V2 = categorical([3,1,2,2,1,1])
V2 = 1×6 categorical array
3 1 2 2 1 1
S1 = string(V1)
S1 = 1×6 string array
"1" "2" "3" "2" "2" "1"
S2 = string(V2)
S2 = 1×6 string array
"3" "1" "2" "2" "1" "1"
NAVNEET NAYAN
NAVNEET NAYAN on 2 Oct 2021
Thank You So Much. It worked

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