how to write a program combininb name and age?

In my HB I got an assigment on writing a program that asks for the name and age of a person, then runs the sentence Dear__your age is___, the blank spaces containing the input

I thought about using a switch, the cases being the name inputs, is that something I can do or is there an easier way?

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

No Switch statement is needed. This practice is to get the input and put it in the right format.

help input

 INPUT  Prompt for user input. 
    RESULT = INPUT(PROMPT) displays the PROMPT string on the screen, waits
    for input from the keyboard, evaluates any expressions in the input,
    and returns the value in RESULT. To evaluate expressions, INPUT accesses
    variables in the current workspace. If you press the return key without
    entering anything, INPUT returns an empty matrix.
 
    STR = INPUT(PROMPT,'s') returns the entered text without evaluating expressions.
 
    To create a prompt that spans several lines, use '\n' to indicate each
    new line. To include a backslash ('\') in the prompt, use '\\'.
 
    Example:
 
       reply = input('Do you want more? Y/N [Y]:','s');
       if isempty(reply)
          reply = 'Y';
       end
 
    See also KEYBOARD.

    Documentation for input
       doc input

help sprintf

 sprintf - Format data into string or character vector
    This MATLAB function formats the data in arrays A1,...,An using the
    formatting operators specified by formatSpec and returns the resulting
    text in str.

    Syntax
      str = sprintf(formatSpec,A1,...,An)
      [str,errmsg] = sprintf(formatSpec,A1,...,An)
      str = sprintf(literalText)

    Input Arguments
      formatSpec - Format of output fields
        formatting operators
      A1,...,An - Numeric, character, or string arrays
        arrays
      literalText - Input text without formatting operators
        character vector | string scalar

    Output Arguments
      str - Formatted text
        character vector | string scalar
      errmsg - Error message
        character vector

    Examples
      openExample('matlab/FloatingPointFormatsExample')
      openExample('matlab/LiteralTextandArrayInputsExample')
      openExample('matlab/SpecifyFormattedTextAsStringArrayExample')
      openExample('matlab/IntegerFormatwithFloatingPointInputsExample')
      openExample('matlab/SpecifyFieldWidthofaPrintedValueExample')
      openExample('matlab/ReorderInputsUsingPositionIdentifiernExample')
      openExample('matlab/CreateaStringfromValuesinCellArrayExample')

    See also char, fprintf, int2str, num2str, sscanf, fscanf, compose,
      string

    Introduced in MATLAB before R2006a
    Documentation for sprintf
       doc sprintf

    Other uses of sprintf

       codistributed/sprintf
       dlarray/sprintf
       gpuArray/sprintf
       matlab.automation.internal.diagnostics.FormattableString/sprintf

[Steven Lord]

Another approach could be to build up a string that includes your data. This documentation page shows two ways to do that.