MATLAB Input Function Help | Elbarto

[elbarto]

Hi all,
Can someone please help me with my MATLAB code. I am trying to get the program to quite if the user tries to input a non-numeric value, and will display an error message. I have got it to work useing the MATLAB input('promt','s') command, but i don't want to use this command because a user can't enter 5/100 etc.
Here is my code.

j = input('number?:')
if isnan(j)==1
    disp('Input must be a number, Function will terminate')
    return
end

I would just like to know if there is a simply way to do this, if not I will use the command I used before and use the eval function I think...

Thank You

Regards Elbarto

 

[Mark44]

Hi all,
Can someone please help me with my MATLAB code. I am trying to get the program to quite if the user tries to input a non-numeric value, and will display an error message. I have got it to work useing the MATLAB input('promt','s') command, but i don't want to use this command because a user can't enter 5/100 etc.
Here is my code.

j = input('number?:')
if isnan(j)==1
    disp('Input must be a number, Function will terminate')
    return
end

I would just like to know if there is a simply way to do this, if not I will use the command I used before and use the eval function I think...

Thank You

Regards Elbarto

The MATLAB isnan() function is not what you want to use. Instead, the isnumeric() function will evaluate to logical 1 (true) if the argument is a number, and logical 0 (false) if not, such as for a string or logical expression.

 

[jedishrfu]

Another approach is to accept a string and check if it’s a q to quit and if not evaluate it or convert it to a number.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/str2num.html
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/input.html
Please note that 5/100 is not a number in the Matlab sense rather it’s an expression to be evaluated to a number whereas 0.05 it’s equivalent is a number.

ans=input(‘enter number or q to quit ==>’,’s’)

if ans==‘q’
    quit
else
  num=str2num(ans)
end

You can find a lot of help if you use google by searching on “Matlab convert string to number” as an example. Matlab has a large base of helpful pages on all things Matlab and google has indexed everyone of them..