display a message in a message box

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i wanted to display a message in a message box saying...
Disease identified as Tumor,
Disease identified as Cancer, etc...
Disease identified as is constant.. tumor, cancer etc will be stored in a variable named as 'DiseaseIdentified' and i'll have to get it from that variable....
i did as below... but i'm getting error.... please could someone show me how to write it....
msgbox(sprintf('Disease identified as %s',DiseaseIdentified));
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Seban
Seban on 4 Jan 2013
Which error do you get?
Jan
Jan on 4 Jan 2013
Whenever you post in the forum, that you get an error, add the complete message also. Currently an answer requires to guess what's going on, and if our guesses are wrong, an answer can be worse than no answer.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 4 Jan 2013
You may want to use uiwait() so the message pauses there and waits for the user, and does not keep barreling along with the rest of your code, as just a plain msgbox will.
message = sprintf('Disease identified as %s', DiseaseIdentified{1});
uiwait(warndlg(message)); % Waits, and displays exclamation point.
or, if it is normal
uiwait(helpdlg(message)); % Waits, and displays info text balloon.
uiwait(msgbox(message)); % Waits, and displays no icon at all.

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 4 Jan 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 4 Jan 2013
Maybe is that what you want
msgbox(sprintf('Disease identified as %d',1));
or
DiseaseIdentified='cancer'
msgbox(sprintf('Disease identified as %s',DiseaseIdentified));
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Seban
Seban on 4 Jan 2013
As it said, you can't use cell input in sprintf. You need to make sure DiseaseIdentified is a string.
Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 4 Jan 2013
Use
DiseaseIdentified={'cancer'}
msgbox(sprintf('Disease identified as %s',DiseaseIdentified{1}));

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