On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Isak Delberth Davids
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> Hi all,
>
> I would like to put a character string into title plots. I managed by doing
>
> clear;clc;
> x = -30:30;
> y = sin(x);
> WhatItIs = 'sine curve'; % this is OK
> plot(x,y)
> title(sprintf('This is my %s',WhatItIs),'FontSize',14,'FontWeight','bold');
>
> I was happy, but wanted to be a bit fancy --- I want the user to input the
> string at run time, so I did:
>
> clear;clc;
> x = -30:30;
> y = sin(x);
> WhatItIs = input('Please tell us what this is '); % this fails
> plot(x,y)
> title(sprintf('This is my %s',WhatItIs),'FontSize',14,'FontWeight','bold');
>
> How should I write the line that request user input of a string?
I took a look at "help input". I think this should do the trick.