Solving Input Issue in MATLAB Code

[geft]

I have the following code which does not wait for input and skips right to the end. Is there something I miss?

no = 0;
total = 0;

while ans>=0
    ans = input('Input a number (negative to quit): ');
    no = no+1;
    total = total + ans;
end;

printf('\n');
disp('The input average is ');
total/no

 

[marcusl]

1) You need to initialize ans to a positive value to start with or your while statement will never be satisfied. You can subtract that value off later so it doesn't affect your count. 2) Your printf argument is not a valid character. I'm not sure what you had in mind there.
3) You'll get a cleaner output with the format in the last line below


no = 0;
total = 0;
ans = 1;

while ans>=0
ans = input('Input a number (negative to quit): ');
no = no+1;
total = total + ans;
end;
total = total - 1;

disp(['The input average is ',num2str(total/no)])

 

[geft]

Thanks! I believe the input problem was because I was running the code on FreeMat. I tried running my original code on MATLAB and it worked. For some reason I can't get input() to work on FreeMat. EDIT: It's an existing bug.