Store numbers in an array from user input

How would I store numbers into an array one at a time from a user input? Here is what I have, but I'm getting an error saying

count = 0;
while count < 10
    x(count) = input('Input a number: ');
    count = count + 1;
end
x = x(1:count);

Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

Error in untitled2 (line 5) x(count) = input('Input a number: ')

[Student]

Nevermind! I fixed it - I got the error because I started with an index of 0

[Jake Gonzalez]

I would recommend using a for loop instead of a while here.

It seems like you are just waiting for the user to give 10 inputs, for which a for-loop is better practice. If you were to be looping until, for example, the sum of the user inputs is becomes greater than a number, that would be a better use for a while-loop.

It may not seem important now on something small like this, but good coding practice helps on any coding level.

Something like this:

for ii = 1:10
    x(ii) = input('Input a number: ');
end

[Connor Frederick]

How would I get it to ask for a different variable each time?

Say I wanted 4 input variables a, b, c, d. I am trying to get it to ask for each different variable subsequently.

so,

Input length a

Input length b

input length c

input length d

[Rik]

An array is a much better idea. That way you don't need to generate the variable name later in your code when you want to use the values. Using an array also means you can easily count how many variables were entered, as you can just count the elements with numel.

[Md Iqbal]

Store string in array from user input in matlab GUI

Answer 1

[Shivani Dixit]

In the above given code it is also possible to form the array while taking the input from the user.

Also in the below code given for reference, you need not worry about the count as it is not used for indexing and only for incrementing each time a value is given until upper limit (here, 10)

You can refer to the below code for the same :

count = 0;
x=[];
while count < 10
    y = input('Input a number: ');
    x=[x y];
    count = count + 1;
end
x % prints out the array containing values given by user

[Stephen23]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/preallocating-arrays.html