Question

i’m looking for advice to see if anyone knows how to get this working…
i have an number of player names which i’d like to convert in to numbers to store in a list.

for k = 1:player_name;
    pn = sprintf('Enter the name of player %d', k);
    inputdlg(pn);
end

for example, i’d like to retrieve the name of player 2.
i was thinking something like:

player1 = str2num(pn %d, k);

but i can’t get this working…
any ideas greatly recieved!

Answer 1

Here is my solution to your problem:

numPlayers = inputdlg('Enter the number of players');
numPlayers = str2num(numPlayers{1});

for i=1:numPlayers
    name{i} = inputdlg(['Enter the name of player ' num2str(i)]);
end

now to access player 1’s name

name1 = name{1}