display text when asking user for input in matlab

To display text when asking user for input in MATLAB, you can use the input() function along with a string argument that serves as a prompt for the user. Here's an example code snippet:

main.m
% ask user for their name
name = input('Please enter your name: ', 's');

% display a message using the entered name
disp(['Hello, ' name '!']);
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In this code snippet, the input() function is used to prompt the user to input their name, with the given string Please enter your name: being the prompt that is displayed to the user. The 's' argument tells MATLAB to interpret the input as a string.

After the user enters their name and presses enter, the name variable will store the input, and the disp() function is used to display a message including the entered name.

You can modify the text string that serves as the prompt to ask the user for other types of input or to provide further instructions, depending on the needs of your program.