Why am i getting this error in the following line of code?

disp (' ');

name = input ('Enter a name for the folder (single quotes): '); % input folder's name

mkdir (name);

It was running fine when i tested it... 'Test' by giving this string name

disp (' ');

name = inputdlg ('Enter a name for the folder (single quotes): '); % input folder's name

mkdir (name);

now when i enter a string 'Test' as my folder name in this dialogue box i get error which says...

Error using mkdir

Argument must contain a string.

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Rizwana, in this case use

 name = inputdlg ('Enter a name for the folder (single quotes): ');
 mkdir (name{1});

Note the curly brackets.

[Rizwana]

what difference does it makes... what if i make another such dialogue box,how should i write it then??..

s1 = inputdlg('Enter title of column with serial number')

then when i write 'NaN' as default value then also its throwing same error!! how to resolve all such errors?

[Mischa Kim]

As pointed out above and explained by Jan below, inputdlg returns a cell array of strings. The following code snippet shows how to read and output multiple (2) lines of strings:

 prompt   = {'Input dialog'};
 name     = 'Input dialog';
 numlines = 2;
 dlg_ans  = inputdlg(prompt, name, numlines);
 dlg_ans{1}(1,:)
 dlg_ans{1}(2,:)

[Rizwana]

Thank you

Answer 2

[Jan]

Please read the documentation of inputdlg . There you find the explanation, that a cell is replied. But mkdir requires a string.

You have to pick a certain element out of the cell.

See:

doc inputdlg
doc cell
doc mkdir

[Rizwana]

Thank You.