My Selection Dialog Box Contains Two Options, but only Displays one Image

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I attached an image of my code. For some reason when I choose either option(subtraction or division) in the dialog box the same image appears. I'm not sure what's wrong with my code.

Answers (1)

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 22 Aug 2018
Change
if 'Subtraction'
to
if length(indx) ~= 1
uiwait(msgbox('Must select exactly one choice'));
elseif strcmp(list1{indx}, 'Subtraction')
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shiffraw dagnechaw
shiffraw dagnechaw on 28 Aug 2018
Thank you so much sir, it worked. I'm still trying to figure out why my simple code didn't work
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 28 Aug 2018
Your existing code
if 'Subtraction'
does not compare the user input to anything. Instead, it is an example of if being applied to a vector of values. When you apply if to a vector of values, the if is considered to succeed if all of the values in the vector are numerically non-zero. 'S' and 'u' and 'b' and so on are not char(0), so all of the entries in the vector are indeed numerically non-zero, so the test was considered to always succeed.
Note: the character '0' is char(48), numerically 48, and so is non-zero. Only char(0), known formally as NUL, is considered to be numerically zero.

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