How to store string values from a for loop into a cell array?

Hi. I want the user to input an arbitrary number, and then set up a for loop that asks the question

"Enter a string" as many times as the user indicated above with the first input.

I then want to store all these string values into a cell array, and be able to retrieve these strings later.

How do I do this?

prompt = "Enter a number";

x = input(prompt)

for i=1:x
  %Code that asks user to input string

end

Answer 1

[Moe_2015]

prompt = 'Enter a number: ';

x = input(prompt);

for i=1:x
  user_string = input('Enter a string: ');
  all_strings{i} = user_string;
end

[Moe_2015]

Also, I don't know your end goal but you may want to make this a function to make it cleaner:

function [all_strings] = MyStringFunction()

prompt = 'Enter a number: ';

x = input(prompt);

for i=1:x
  user_string = input('Enter a string: ');
  all_strings{i} = user_string;
end

[Neil Bhattacharjee]

Thanks for the help moe!

I know this might be a little too much, but is there any way I can make it so that I don't have to use quotations when i'm entering strings?

Thanks!

[Moe_2015]

Yes, replace

user_string = input('Enter a string: ');

with

user_string = input('Enter a string: ','s');

This way you will not need any single quotations and you just have to enter whatever text you want as an input and it will treat it as a string.