Write a function dayName that has one input argument, day, containing the numerical value of a day in the month of November, 2014.

I was wondering if there was a shorter code to solve this problem? The solution I got was:

clc,clear
dayName = input('Enter date of month '); %input the date desired.
if dayName==1; %All following takes the date entered and returns the name of the day.
    disp('Saturday')
elseif dayName==2;
    disp('Sunday')
elseif dayName==3;
    disp('Monday')
elseif dayName==4;
    disp('Tuesday')
elseif dayName==5;
    disp('Wednesday')
elseif dayName==6;
    disp('Thursday')
elseif dayName==7;
    disp('Friday')
elseif dayName==8;
    disp('Saturday')
elseif dayName==9;
    disp('Sunday')
elseif dayName==10;
    disp('Monday')
elseif dayName==11;
    disp('Tuesday')
elseif dayName==12;
    disp('Wednesday')
elseif dayName==13;
    disp('Thursday')
elseif dayName==14;
    disp('Friday')
elseif dayName==15;
    disp('Saturday')
elseif dayName==16;
    disp('Sunday')
elseif dayName==17;
    disp('Monday')
elseif dayName==18;
    disp('Tuesday')
elseif dayName==19;
    disp('Wednesday')
elseif dayName==20;
    disp('Thursday')
elseif dayName==21;
    disp('Friday')
elseif dayName==22;
    disp('Saturday')
elseif dayName==23;
    disp('Sunday')
elseif dayName==24;
    disp('Monday')
elseif dayName==25;
    disp('Tuesday')
elseif dayName==26;
    disp('Wednesday')
elseif dayName==27;
    disp('Thursday')
elseif dayName==28;
    disp('Friday')
elseif dayName==29;
    disp('Saturday')
elseif dayName==30;
    disp('Sunday')
end %Ends function.

[Jarred]

I found the correct format. It is as follows:

clc,clear
day=input('Enter date of the month ');
if any(day==[3 10 17 24])
    dayName = 'Monday' ;
elseif any(day==[4 11 18 25])
    dayName = 'Tuesday' ;
elseif any(day==[5 12 19 26])
    dayName = 'Wednesday' ;
elseif any(day==[6 13 20 27])
    dayName = 'Thursday' ;
elseif any(day==[7 14 21 28])
    dayName = 'Friday' ;
elseif any(day==[1 8 15 22 29])
    dayName = 'Saturday';
elseif any(day==[2 9 16 23 30])
    dayName = 'Sunday';
end
disp(dayName)

Answer 1

[Jan]

dayNameList = {'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday'};
day         = input('Enter date of the month ');
dayName     = dayNameList{mod(day - 3, 7) +1}