How to display two things on one line?

My assignmend is telling me to use the display command to display the phrase "The first random variable is" and the x value (calculated earlier in the script) on the same line. The result should be:

The first random variable is 4

Not:

The first random variable is

4

Heres the code (don't worry about the y value)

x=ceil(5*rand(1));
y=floor(99*rand(1));
disp("The first number is ")
disp(x)

[per isakson]

Homework I assume.

You have to do it with one disp() statement, because disp() automatically adds a newline after the output

[Image Analyst]

Or use fprintf() like I show in my Answer below.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Use fprintf():

fprintf('The first random variable is %d.\n', x);

[Noah Brühwiler]

so ein müll

Answer 2

[per isakson]

See Append Text to Strings before you try my code.

>> "abc"+"def"
ans = 
    "abcdef"
>> 

and your example

>> x = 17;
>> disp( "The first number is " + num2str(x)  )
The first number is 17

it's even possible to add the numerical x to the string.

>> disp("The first number is " + x )
The first number is 17

The doc on plus, + Addition says

If one input is a string array, then the other input can be a numeric, logical, character, string, or cell array.

>> "true is displayed as "+true
ans = 
    "true is displayed as true"

Answer 3

[Paul]

Would this be considered a character array or string? I need to output text without using either...

disp("The original number was "+integer+" and the flipped number is "+flipped)

[Image Analyst]

Text is either a character array, if single quotes were used to build it, or a string, if double quotes were used to build it.

Why do you need to output text without using either a character array or string? That seems really really weird. Regardless, you can't, since text has to be either one or the other. It can't be "neither".

[Walter Roberson]

If the point is that the output must not have the quotation marks, then disp() should work for that purpose.

But I suspect that the restriction is hinting that you should be using fprintf.

[Paul]

This image is from the assignment. Yeah, it seems weird to me too. But I also may not be understanding what it means fully.