Prompt user input for table inputdlg

I have an issue:

I want an user defined input such as the "input" command in an m code file. But when i use the inputdlg and input a series of data it comes out as a

[11x4 char]

instead of a 11x1 variable that can be used in the rest of the code

I want the user to input a range of values from an excel sheet into the inputdlg and then that gets used in the rest of the code.

I hope this makes sense.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

post your code, and explain your problem?

[Jonathan Wilson]

rho = input('Enter density of operating fluid = ')

w = input('Enter Taylor wake fraction = ')

t = input('Enter Thrust deduction factor = ') D = input('Enter diameter range in meters = ')

V = inputdlg('Enter speed range','Input', 10)

T = inputdlg('Enter correspondin T using speed range','Input', 10)

This is my code, this means that the user has to input 10 numbers for the V and the T variable.

when this happens i see: [11x4 char] instead of [10x1] which is what i want to see.

I want to input a number, e.g. 469 and for that ot be a single number in a list. but what looks like is happening is, it is taking each sinlge number as seperate. e.g. 4 5 9 = [1x3] rather than [1x1]

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

inputdlg() always returns a cell array of strings. You can use str2double() to parse each line if you are expecting exactly one value per line. See Example 2 in http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/inputdlg.html

[Jonathan Wilson]

So what does str2double use?

I want to enter a range of values for example

456.9

345.7

302.6

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then there to be a matrix of 10x1 not 10x6 as it splits the numbers up individually.

[Walter Roberson]

>> str2double({'456.9'; '345.7'})

ans =

          456.9
          345.7