Hi everyone.I need help. I am trying to write a set of input statements that prompt the user for his/her favorite band, favorite song, favorite restaurant, and favorite food but i keep getting the same error message. What could be the problem?

favoriteband= input ('Please enter  your favorite band:','s');
favoritesong= input ('\n Please enter  your favorite song:','s');
favoriterestaurant= input('\n Please enter your favorite restaurant:','s');
favoritefood= input('\n Please enter your favorite food:','s');

Undefined function or method 'question' for input arguments of type 'char'.

[John D'Errico]

Insufficient information. You have not actually provided the complete error message, and more importantly, you have not actually shown us the offending line of code.

The code you have shown will work.

[GEORGE WAYNE MWANGI]

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[GEORGE WAYNE MWANGI]

There is the code and error message. Still no change @ John D'Errico

[John D'Errico]

You have not actually shown us the offending line. Unless of course, you have written a function called input. In that case, and you have done something silly, then all bets are off.

None of the code you show above can generate that error message.

[Image Analyst]

"question" is not even a mentioned word in your code at all! Some other code is the code that is actually throwing the error, not the code you showed us. Please show us all the code. And show us what this says:

>> whos -all input

[GEORGE WAYNE MWANGI]

Do the following in a script file. You can then copy the commands from your script file and the resulting output into this document. (a) Write a set of input statements that prompt the user for his/her favorite band, favorite song, favorite restaurant, and favorite food. (b) Write two fprintf statements. The first statement should display the user’s favorite band and favorite song. The second statement should display the user’s favorite restaurant and favorite food on a new line.

[GEORGE WAYNE MWANGI]

That is the question.

Answer 1

[Jan]

How do you start the shown code? Is it stored in a script or function file called "question.m"? Then this file might not be in one of the folders contain in Matlab's path. Store it in a user defined folder than and attach this folder to the path - see:

doc addpath

Or perhaps you wanted to store the code in such a file but have a typo in the file name.

But these are bold guesses only. This would not explain, why Matlab searchs for a function with a char as first input. This will get clear, if you post the complete code and explain, how you start it.