String input saves as character.

month_num = input('\nPlease enter the number of the month you would like to look at, i.e. 1 for January, 2 for February, etc.:\n', 's');

month_num = str2dbl(month_num);

I'm trying to save a month number as a string and then convert it to a double (class requirement, not my choice) but everytime I run the code I get the following error

Undefined function 'str2dbl' for input arguments of type 'char'.

I've tried putting string(input('')) and month_num = string(month_num); neither of which have changed the outcome.

Answer 1

[Ameer Hamza]

The correct function name is str2double(), not str2dbl().https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020b/matlab/ref/str2double.html