How to concatenate strings in a loop?

Question

I'd like to create an inputdlg with various lines with similar names like Test 1, Test 2, Test 3 and so. So I'm looking for some way to concatenate strings in a for loop. I tried something like:

 formatSpec = '''Test %d'',';
    a = sprintf(formatSpec,1);
    for i = 2:numtest
        a = strcat(a,sprintf(formatSpec,i));
    end

but it's not working for inputdlg. How do I do this?

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-12 20:49:50Z

4

This may be what you want:

for i = 1:10
    line_name = sprintf('Test %d', i);
    prompt{i} = line_name;
end
input_result = inputdlg(prompt);

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edited Nov 12, 2012 at 20:49

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