String manipulation with printing of characters

The question is:

Write a script that will prompt the user to enter a word, and then print the first character in the word. For example, the output might look like this:

>> Enter a word: howdy

The word howdy starts with the letter ‘h’

How do you print the first character? I can do the:

>> word = input('Enter a word: ','s')

I do not know to display the first character.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

hint

fprintf('%s : ''%s''\n', t, t(1))

Answer 2

[NAVNEET NAYAN]

I think the following code should work

t=input('Enter a word: ', 's');
disp(t(1));

[Liz]

Yes I did try that before, but the question wants you to print the first letter with the quote 'The word howdy starts with the letter 'h'. I thought about maybe using fprintf, but couldn't think how to do that.

[NAVNEET NAYAN]

Try this and see whether it solves the purpose or not. I think it should work

t=input('Enter a word: ', 's');
char(t(1));