Thread Subject: Input by user

Hallo,

I want to modify my program so that the user can say how the inputfile is called. At the moment it is "HARD" programmed like this:

%CAUTION
%The user must check for the next 8 program lines if they are correct
%constants
numberOfRowsPlusHeader = 2049; %Number of rows in the AIDA-output file inclusiv header
numberOfColumns = 12; %Number of columns in the AIDA-output file

%Import file BeispielTabelle_170707.txt
%number and names of varaiables in [] brackets correponds to the header of
%the AIDA-output file (=column names)
%number of %s corresponds to the number of column of the AIDA-output file
[MchipsID, prim_sec, Name, Integral, Bkg, category, Label, Area, Integral_Bkg, Homogeneity, Saturated, Quality] = ...
textread('BeispielTabelle_250707.txt','%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s',numberOfRowsPlusHeader, 'delimiter', '\t');

The goal is that I receive the following information from the user:

1. numberOfRowsPlusHeader = How many rows has the input-file?

2. name of the input-file --> in example: 'BeispielTabelle_250707.txt'

Please help me. I just know from the other programming languages it might be "ask". How does the command looks like here?

Thanks, Corinna

I believe the command you are looking for is "input". Check it out with "help input".

Cheers,
Robert

"Corinna Schmitt" <csc@mathworks.com> wrote in message <f8q3ge$551$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hallo,
>
> I want to modify my program so that the user can say how the inputfile is called. At the moment it is "HARD" programmed like this:
>
> %CAUTION
> %The user must check for the next 8 program lines if they are correct
> %constants
> numberOfRowsPlusHeader = 2049; %Number of rows in the AIDA-output file inclusiv header
> numberOfColumns = 12; %Number of columns in the AIDA-output file
>
> %Import file BeispielTabelle_170707.txt
> %number and names of varaiables in [] brackets correponds to the header of
> %the AIDA-output file (=column names)
> %number of %s corresponds to the number of column of the AIDA-output file
> [MchipsID, prim_sec, Name, Integral, Bkg, category, Label, Area, Integral_Bkg, Homogeneity, Saturated, Quality] = ...
> textread('BeispielTabelle_250707.txt','%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s',numberOfRowsPlusHeader, 'delimiter', '\t');
>
> The goal is that I receive the following information from the user:
>
> 1. numberOfRowsPlusHeader = How many rows has the input-file?
>
> 2. name of the input-file --> in example: 'BeispielTabelle_250707.txt'
>
> Please help me. I just know from the other programming languages it might be "ask". How does the command looks like here?
>
> Thanks, Corinna