variable into msgbox???

How do I display a variable's value on a msgbox? I have (1x9) array :

k =

Columns 1 through 7

    [1x27 char]    [1x36 char]    [1x35 char]    [1x32 char]    [1x28 char]    [1x27 char]    [1x34 char]

Columns 8 through 9

    [1x23 char]    [1x34 char]

I try that but it didn't work:

>> msgbox(['These values are incorrect', 'WARNING','warn'], k)

??? Error using ==> figure Value must be a string

Error in ==> dialog at 88 hDialog = figure('BackingStore' ,backstore , ...

Error in ==> msgbox at 223 figureHandle=dialog( ...

Can you help me??

Answer 1

[Jan]

The 2nd input of MSGBOX is a string containing the dialog's title. See "help msgbox".

msgbox(cat(2, {'These values are incorrect:'}, k), 'Warning')

The CAT command joins the single cell string with the list of strings in the cell string k to create the message.

[alexis]

Thanks Jan

You really help me a lot!!!

Many thanks!

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

Use sprintf to make a string:

msgbox(sprintf('These Values are incorrect WARNING %f warn',k))

[Jan]

"k" is a cell string, therefore SPRINTF must fail.

[Sean de Wolski]

k{:}

[Jan]

k{:} will not help also, because the '%f' format expects a floating point number, but k contains strings. Perhaps you want this:

['These Values are incorrect WARNING', char(10), ...

sprintf('%s\n', k{:})].